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Singer Manufacturing Co., which makes 80% of the sewing machines in the world and sells them through agencies in practically every community of the world, is one of the corporations which Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard scolded in his book Main Street and Wall Street- for furnishing "neither hide nor hair of financial data ... in the usual sources of information." Singer officials are seemingly thus niggardly because their stock is closely owned by people, many of whom knew the founders of their corporation and remember the anecdote of how the late Inslee A. Hopper became their first president...
...anchorite of Wall Street, President Baker yet inherently dislikes publicity. That reticence, among other factors, prevented Mayor James Walker of New York City appointing Mr. Baker police commissioner last year, although Mr. Baker's friends assured Mayor Walker that the banker would accept the appointment as an obligation. They pointed to the facts that he is, quietly, the President of St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan, a trustee of Columbia University, and an earnest, active Episcopalian...
...easily find in those works in display much that is Classical, much that shows the influence of Courbet, Tintoretto, Rubens, and Delacroix. But what is most important is the realization of the subjective character of the exhibition and the willingness to 'look again' in an endeavor to penetrate the wall of unphotographic reality which will probably, with the majority of observers, obstruct their view...
Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, the only Indian that ever graduated from Harvard, slim and imperious, strolled, for four years through the buildings which then composed Harvard College, or what is more likely, for he died of consumption almost immediately after taking his degree of Bachelor of Arts, sneaked along the wall of his private dormitory much more fearing than to be feared. Harvard never seemed to agree with Indian students for most of the ones who started, and there were quite a number 250 years ago, either died before they could take their degrees or returned to their native hunting ground before...
...when hypocritical clergymen are mouthing old theologies, in a day when mammon-worshiping, penny-pinching hypocrites are defending the system that exploits millions and sucks the lifeblood out of the workers around the world, in a day when snobs and aristocrats hold up the iron wall of class and caste, I have dared to stand up and tell the truth concerning these soul-blasting tyrannies...