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...said the politician, and then, hungry for more, he beamed and added, "sound-and what else?" "Nothing else," said the critic. To date, Senator Fess's only reply has been a declaration that the episode has shown that "Wall Street" disliked his attitude on the bonus. Upon his sudden failure to sustain the President's veto, however, he has not commented...
When a student enters college from school, he is thrown into an entirely different environment and system of study than that to which he has been accustomed. In my opinion, this sudden change is altogether too abrupt. The preparatory schools claim to prepare boys for college but in reality they fall far short of any such preparation. True it is that they prepare for the Entrance Examinations but their success too often ends there. The Freshman knows little or nothing of college life, activities, courses, and absolutely nothing of the new system of studying and note-taking. Consequently, he flounders...
Taken as a whole, the idea is one which staggers the imagination both by its simplicity and by its brilliant possibilities. But like most sudden visions, if draws in its wake a host of practical obstacles which may very well prevent its ultimate fulfillment. Captain Creed has outlined a scheme of enormous potentialities, but he has left to those who follow after the monumental labor of arranging the details; and many of these already shadow forth the suggestion that they will present difficulties of mountainous proportions. It is even conceivable that the principle itself will miscarry; the occasions on which...
Friedrich Wilhelm's sudden passion for the soil may of course be nothing but one of the whims which from time to time disturb the peace of mind of royalty. Yet from the fact that he has frequently found it necessary to motor as far as Berlin in order to have his teeth attended, although Brealau cannot be wholly barren of dentists, he may be suspected of cloaking the usual ambition of dispossessed princes beneath his present agricultural activities...
...Germany the Prince must gain the support of a vast majority of the people. With their confidence in royalty shaken by defeat in war it is hardly likely that they will flock to the standard of the double eagle, either deceived or flattered by the Crown Prince's sudden interest in the humble science of the ploughman...