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...increasing money-making ability. And every year a similar multitude of young men and women are sent forth to their sordid battle from the gates of our colleges armed with a sheepskin, a bundle of new desires, a few common-place rules of economics, and with hardly a trace of originality among them--an army of pygmies fresh from the mold. The procession is a sufficient commentary upon the general state of college education...
...prevent him from loving his own nation, but it made it impossible for him to hate other nations. In this, Goethe proved himself greatly superior to many professed Christians of our own day. Chauvinism or anything resembling it was utterly foreign to his nature and not a trace of it may be found in any of his works. There is no finer testimony to this aspect of Goethe's character than the words of the great Italian, Benedetto Croce, in the preface to his recent book on Goethe. 'During the sad days of the World War', Croce writes, 'I reread...
...yacht belonging to the Italian Navy to a point off the African coast opposite the Oasis of Jarabub. Gazing toward the Oasis from the shiny deck, the Marquis Negrotto Dicambiaso for Italy and Sidik Pasha for Egypt will determine the exact disposition to be made of the Oasis, and trace the future rectifications of the frontier between Egypt and Italian Tripoli...
...purport lodge in these formal messages?a hint of vague hatreds, of malice palely half-smiling from faces as yellow as the telegraph blanks, and as inscrutable? It was hard to be sure. The police, at all events, evinced some interest in the messages; they were also curious to trace certain long distance telephone calls from Boston to obscure places in the Chinese quarters of St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh?calls in which the connection had been requested in carefully articulated English, followed by the rushing speech of a dim voice haranguing in a chant of monosyllables an unseen...
...still striking, if some of his compatriots are yelling "Down with the British" and "Kill all foreigners," if some other Chinese left the British Legation at Peking last week because they feared for their lives at the hands of angry Chinese students, in Washington Mr. Sze showed not a trace of hostility on his face. He was smiling in his customary genial way, quite sure that China was to receive at last the attention for which these many years she has been clamoring...