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...Cairo, the capi- tal, where he entered a special railway car provided by the Palestine Government and was whisked off across the Suez Canal to Palestine, land of two religions: Judaism, Christianity.* Lord Balfour went to Jerusalem, direct to Government House on the Mount of Olives. On a spur of the Mount of Olives, known as Mt. Scopus, stands the Hebrew Univer- sity which he had come to open?which all Zionist Jewry considers of the utmost importance in the growth of what may be called modern Is- rael. He arrived several days before the opening ceremony...
...French officials did all in their power to make the Games extremely comfortable and pleasant for all concerned. Some of our men misbehaved themselves grossly; some of their countrymen, excited and excitable, did the same-except that they were less to blame in that they acted on the spur of tension and without malice aforethought. But neither example of rowdyism should be given sufficient importance to mar the general effect of the whole. The French honestly did the best they knew how to do for us; and if the sleeping quarters were not what we had been accustomed...
...Olds spoke on "The Making of a College," referring to ideal college trustees as "a spur rather than a curb...
...interest which has been aroused by the award of these prizes of slight pecuniary value is significant. Most of the Utopias of social reformers have foundered upon the reef of man's inherent self-seeking; and the necessity of the spur of personal gain has come to be frankly recognized. The greatest works of art and literature have doubtless never been inspired by this motive; yet with economic life pictured by Smith and Ricardo it has been deemed indispensable. While the Pulitzer prizes are for the most part a recognition of the merit of work produced under the stress...
...honors--letters, keys, and cups--has called forth competitive activities noless rigorous than those induced in the greater world by the hope of pecuniary profit. The establishment of prizes, such as the Pulitzer and Carnegie awards whose significance is largely honorary, is a step toward substituting a more altruistic spur for the traditional goad of gain in the common walks of life. When the "man on the street" will strive as cagerly for such prizes as the student does for his major letter--or the graduate for his scholarship--the schemes of Bellamy and Wells may begin to be practicable...