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...surface, this appears unfair, just as it is hard not to feel a sneaking sentiment of sympathy for the Lucifer of "Paradise Lost". Rebels against the established order of things have from time immemorial found themselves butting a stone wall. And in the case of would-be Adams, usually sensationalists, the stone wall is too well-founded to give much but a crushing rebuttal...
...years New York, to the average American in his moments of pessimism, has summed up in one gigantic symbol everything connoted by Wall Street, the crowded fifth of the East Side, the conspicuous failure of democratic government; above all the noise, confusion, and materialism of American life raised to the n-th degree. Consequently, the announcement yesterday of the launching of a vast scheme to create a greater New York in the true sense of the word, a scheme planned and backed by Wall Street, to be carried out in cooperation with the East Side and the rest...
...feature of the work yesterday was the definite announcement that Jameson would fill the seat at 4 on Saturday in place of Ladd. The former is one of the most promising oarsmen on the squad and gets a tremendous wall of water before his oar on each stroke. He rowed last year on the Freshman crew in its race with M. I. T. and on the combination crew at New London...
...there is some merit in the idea. Surely Falstaff or Malvolio should be able to wipe away the cares of business and give rest to the harried faces on Wall Street. Strangely enough, however, the Honorable Ex-Senator who made the suggestion looks on his discovery as something new and unusual. Perhaps it is to him; perhaps the students of Richmond College did not doze over their Shakspere in his days. And even now the throught of Brutus on Broadway is somewhat startling. Yet Cassius in Cambridge is already well known--and the somnolent influence of Polonius on a warm...
...perception of the fact that one can start with any subject and from it, in a perfectly logical manner, explore every field of knowledge, it would be accomplishing a great thing. All knowledge is related to all knowledge; it was Tennyson who wrote, in his "Flower in the crannied wall...