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...democracy." Foch, Clemenceau, Wilson and the organizing and technical genius that managed the enterprise were unable to displace Anatole France, Maxim Gorky, Bernard Shaw. That the crux of the matter is literary or artistic ability, can be demonstrated by an interesting test. A man without these gifts has seldom blazed out very brightly in the march of the Immortals through history, whatever his real achievements, and no man possessing them has ever been quite forgotten, although his major vocation in life was neither art nor literature. Who remembers Arkwright, Crompton and Stephenson, the chief pioneers in the industrial revolution which...
This report and the week's news of accidents give too gloomy a picture of airplane safety. Civilian aviators are seldom killed, and one commercial airplane firm in. the United States carried over 9,000 passengers 117,000 miles without injury...
...Sweeping assertions are seldom valuable, and it would not be wholly correct to say that senators during the past two years have been really useful to the country in inverse ratio to the publicity they have received. But it would be true to say that publicity has not borne much relation to merit. This is due on the one hand to sensational tendencies in journalism, and on the other to the fact that readers are superficial. In earlier periods, newspapers were much more political in their character than at present. In those days, except for an occasional prize fight...
...BEACHCOMBER IN THE ORIENT-Harry L. Foster-Dodd, Mead ($3.00). The Beachcomber's wanderings take him through Borneo, Siam, French Indo-China, Japan, the Malay States, the Philippines, under freight cars, and among types seldom met at first-hand in the pages of books. The volume is illustrated...
...authority to employ disciplinary measures can be invoked if the occasion arises, but in eight years no resort to such measures has been necessary. Yet the cutting of tutorial appointments is comparatively rare, far less than the cutting of courses. The majority of concentrators, well over 60 per cent, seldom fail to meet their engagements. The tradition of tutorial work has become firmly established...