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...attempt to educate men regardless of capabilities leads naturally to the adoption of quickly attainable objectives, that administrators of public systems are well aware of this despair of convincing the generality of people that the indeterminate paths of learning are worth travelling, and therefore succumb, that politicians aid and abet all moves to make education practical because most electors are practical-minded...
...immemorial antiquity, an attempt was made last week to stamp it out utterly by His Excellency Jules Garde, Governor-General of French West Africa. To women who thus beautify themselves in future, a jail term of from two to five years. To "parents or beauty doctors" who perform or abet such beautification, jail sentences of from five to ten years. Thus proclaimed native heralds, by authority derived from President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic...
...elements in Mexico quite clearly is a warning that unless U. S. demands are satisfied the Arms Embargo itself will be lifted. That, as the State Department well knows, will mean revolution, chaos, and the creation of some bandit as President who can be relied on to protect and abet the oil and land interests if his pockets are kept well filled with gold...
...place of worship even better than in a place of scholarship. Only the highest ideals and the deepest convictions will uproot the seeds of war. These ideas and convictions are born of religion. Let us have our chapel and also the professor's Chair to aid and abet the altar and the pulpit. George L. Paine...
...many famed musical artists. Its purpose, in general, is to stimulate public interest in classical music, in particular to present the works of Beethoven in all forms, especially those least often heard. Large are its box-office receipts. These proceeds it has devoted to such good works as shall abet the fame of Beethoven, paying for the publication of Arthur Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven in its first English version, contributing to the New York Public Library a valuable collection of works relating to the Master, giving a large sum toward the erection of a new Festspielhaus...