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...obviously a difficult medium for anything more than the conventional 'appreciative' discourse on poetry, and these essays can best be taken as an exceptionally graceful and discriminating specimen of that character. They bring little new matter to the contemporary 'rehabilitation' of Dryden's reputation, though they may possibly give wider currency to that phenomenon...
...refused to participate. No longer did it offer the highest rates in the country for its manuscripts, nor did it join the scramble for illustrious names which has characterized even the best American editorship in the recent past. It has never entered any bids for the favor of the wider and less lettered public on which many magazines are now thriving. Instead it has kept its place by its literary "finds" and by a certain dun and academic distinction...
Engineer Scott noted some ways this is done. Cars are wider than they are deep...
...Wider distribution of available work is a very specific remedy for employment problems, but it is doubtful whether it would help general conditions greatly. Many who are at present employed full time would find their incomes greatly reduced for the benefit of those returned to work by this plan. As a result less money may be spent for luxuries, and a great deal more for necessities, than has been in the three years of depression. Such disarrangements of industry cannot be considered lightly...
...charge I am not in sympathy with progressive education is ridiculous. My two sons attended Yale University. A daughter was graduated this year from Vassar. They were sent to eastern institutions to give them the advantages, if any, that would accrue from wider contacts and associations...