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...Little combines the rare ability to drive straight home to the heart of the situation with a clarity of vision and a spiritual vividness that is profoundly invigorating. He sends his barbs, his shafts and his thunderbolts in well ordered legions. His keenness is surpassed only by his Utopia. He applies the spur so much needed in arousing an earnest interest in education, the most permanent social contribution of the age. There is no individual, no member of society who can afford to overlook this living philosophy. The leaders of the coming generation, especially, should consider themselves ignorant unless they...
...Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used it for their battle ground. They resented the foreigner's intrussion, doing all in their power to hinder the building of the new forts...
...tales of the Yukon, Osage City was on its feet; his family no longer needed him. From time to time he disappeared; Sabra, industrious, civic-minded, became the town's solid first citizen, Yancey its stirring legend. Hard-drinking, straight-shooting, impulsive, un- reliable, Yancey had wanted to build Utopia on the Oklahoma prairie: the women were too much for him. What came was not Utopia but civilization: women's clubs, department stores. Yancey's spectacular end was like him: at a crisis he appeared suddenly from nowhere, did the prodigious thing, saved hundreds of lives, died with a quotation...
...their logical fulfillment, it will become absolutely necessary to create an athletic endowment. This is the logical solution for many of the chief evils now found with college athletics--the over-emphasis of football, the Big Business of intercollegiate sports. It is prerequisite with President Lowell's athletic Utopia of one intercollegiate contest a year in each sport. But the necessity for money for an athletic endowment is one to be borne in mind for the future. It is not a vital need of the present...
This dream of a Utopia of comparative silence between midnight and the first noise rumbling of the milk wagons at the break of drawn is probably impossible to achieve--but it is a pleasant dream for hose few precious, hard-gleaned moments of sleep...