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...report; but you have in some aspects missed the point in your appreciation of what the President intends to do. President Conant has masterfully combined the ideals of former President Lowell with those of so-called Progressive Education, and by so doing he has saved Harvard from the dismal abyss of mediocrity into which it might have fallen. He is about to inaugurate at Harvard a policy which will eventually distinguish it from its neighbors, and he is at least courageous enough to imply that those who do not possess the talent, or are not in sympathy with his ideals...
Between Pope Pius XI and Dictator Stalin I yawns an abyss on a major issue of fact: Did millions of Soviet citizens starve in 1933 or did they get enough...
...intellectual Sargasso Sea in some years to come; one may point out that Dearborn, Michigan, hardly has the ingredients of a scientific oasis for the decade of mental famine; it seems a little chauvinistic of Mr. Wells to plunge the Irish deeper than any other nation into the abyss of economic collapse; he takes a malicious joy in attributing the ruin of New York to its jerry-built skyscrapers. Yet these are but minor points--some well taken, withal. Such details must occasionally be wildly wrong; such detail is of utmost necessity to the interest and vividness of the prediction...
...with hot love-letters stacked around them, "confess all" under the shadow of Science's latest mechanical star-splitter, a device for laying the centuries end to end-so that they will reach from the pearly minarets of wicked Constantinople to the awesome depths of the profoundest ocean abyss yet plumbed by man ! Editorially the Journals were equally exciting. They flayed Tammany and the Trusts, boomed Bryan, whanged McKinley, eagle-screamed at Spain until they brought on war. Hearst. getting himself commissioned an ensign, leaped pantless from his launch at the battle of Santiago, rounded up 26 dripping Spaniards...
...befitted Panterias the sage, when the future course of his life was revealed to him by the haruspex; as that all the labors of the scholar, the resolutions of the philosopher, even the ecstasies of the poet are meaningless and in vain, when they confront the dark and fathomless abyss beyond. Outside, through the high shining windows of the hall, could be seen the white, jagged clouds and the blue author in which they were so lightly afloat. The sweet wind hurried in through the open casement after it had touched the bare trees. . . howbeit not the thought of deliverance...