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...lived to be twice victorious. If Smith runs much ahead of Cox and Davis he need not despair of doing the same. He is younger now than Jackson was the first time he ran and equally the idol of his followers. The Digest poll, when read aright, falls far short of showing that Smith will not be president of the United States...
...there. It was a non-political speech, unless the following was politically construed: "The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers. . . . This incoming flood of prosperity, if it be guided aright, will enable you to add further to the beauty of this city and the comfort of its people." ¶ The welcoming ceremony, delayed a week because of Mrs. Hoover's father's death (TIME, July 30), was by no means the most exacting part of the Beaver...
...political theory of doubtful value. Let us again face facts! The tide of American democracy will rise high once more. Let Harvard prepare its men to rise with it. Let Harvard undergraduates show that tolerance which is the essence of individualistic democracy. Let Harvard graduates fit themselves to lead aright a democratic people. And let Harvard democracy, true democracy, free from boasting, free from standardization, but filled with faith in man and zeal for the service of man, become a watchword through the nation...
...applauded loudly when he said: "You remember, perhaps, what Dr. Eliot said to us not so many years ago: 'The fear of losing one's job has kept education in America fifty years behind its possible improvement.' . . . If I read the times aright, the chambers of commerce, the Lowells, the associations of mayors and governors will succeed in their protests against the rising costs of education. Then our magnificent high schools will follow in the tracks of Napoleon the Little to an inglorious end at some Sedan...
...rumor was true. The Old Boys had heard aright. The Varmint is an anachronism and, to Old Boys' despair, the comment of Headmaster Horace D. Taft of the Taft School only emphasized whither the schools are listing. Said Headmaster Taft: "The modern boy is as good as his predecessors. The only trouble is that he needs to be about ten times as good...