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This strange dream did thrust me forward some three hundred years to a land which was called Newe England which today I hear is overrun by savages but in my dream it was most fair. And I sat in a room A in a building which looked like a storage house but which was called Emerson. And it was exactly at noon. And there I did sit as a Vagabond in search of truth; and did hear a most learned and interesting professor, a Dr. Prall, squeak with enthusiasm over Hobbes, a man of my own time and country...
...enough long-range planning of a scholarly sort. ... In scholarly capacity, one might rate our faculty at about 75%; in willing laboriousness at 90%; in successfully awakening independent intellectual interest in pupils, at 70%. The odium of this last score should be borne largely by the institution, not thrust on the teacher, because St. Paul's does not exalt scholarship, and has preferred to turn out what is known as the all-round citizen, which means a person who excels in nothing. All-round means small-round." ¶ "Education is in part quickened by migration. Sentimental Americans are forever...
...with his whole strength. His arms stiffen, and he is as likely to steer off the road as along it. His legs are forcibly extended, and his feet are pressed down hard. It is the muscular act that Sherrington, who discovered it in the dog, named the 'extensor thrust.' . . . In so doing [the motorist] presses his foot hard down on the accelerator pedal. If then the first jump of the car sends it along a course where it meets other jolts and bumps in rapid succession, the driver tries in vain to recover the equilibrium...
...fully developed in newborn babes, unshakable by training. Now that it imperils motorcar operators, Dr. Henderson thinks it could be successfully sidetracked by installing a pedal in the shape of a wide panel almost flush with the floor boards under the driver's left foot. When the "extensor thrust" shoots both his legs out, though the right foot may jam down the accelerator, the pedal pushed by the left foot will turn off the ignition or close the carburetor intake...
...Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes thrust his leonine head forward over the shining mahogany bench and solemnly demanded...