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...function to its best advantage in the dark or in looking at a fairly well illuminated object when the eye itself is surrounded by darkness," according to Mr. Henry. "There should prevail as high a degree of general illumination as may be consistent with securing clear and easy vision of the picture...
Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb had faith in U. S. railroads when they began their Manhattan partnership in 1867. But their vision might have remained national, had not Jacob Henry Schiff come over from Germany and married Mr. Loeb's daughter, Teresa. The partners made a partner of the son-in-law (1875), and at the same time took into the firm another young man of financial perspicacity?Abraham Wolff. It was not long before Jacob Schiff dominated the partnership, and it was due largely to him that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has made its close connections with European bankers...
...Coolidge's administration has not been particularly noted either for its vision in international affairs or its ability to lead or bully the houses of Congress into backing up its policies. It is perhaps for these reasons that the President's message and its political reactions, recalling as they do the great administrations of Roosevelt and Wilson, revive so strongly faith in the possibilities of American statesmanship...
...have, however, investigated and studied conditions thoroughly, and although we are confident that competent men of vision and experience are guiding the University successfully through a period of crisis and change in American education, we have worked out a program for the sane and natural discussion of problems vitally affecting the undergraduates. We will present with a view to practicality our ideas on fraternities, chapel, unity and population, the endowment drive, the English system of education and other perlish system of education and other pertinent questions since the News is recognized by alumni and the Press as official spokesman...
Finally, Lampy has one brilliant vision--Great Caesar's Ghost! It is by far the best and cleverest in the whole magazine. (Fame for the angel who then hovered over Lampy's dull bed.) Next, we should place the bit of sparkling by-play between Boccacio and Shakespeare. Next, we should place the delightful extract from a disciple of Carl Sandburg. From these three elections, you see the present holds the rubber, and Lampy's costume party is not a success...