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The engineer, then, has no limit to the possibilities of his profession. There are many positions to be filled, many directions to which inventive genius may be directed. The successful aspirant must possess certain rare qualities. He must have perfect industrial training, must be competent to conceive and plan, organize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGINEER'S PROFESSION | 3/28/1912 | See Source »

"The Crystal Gazer" comes up to this standard; it has possibly more plot than the average; one can actually keep it in sight except at two points--one in the first act, when Ozab recommends the wrong suitor, and the other his too sudden unmasking at the end. The characters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Webster on "The Crystal Gazer" | 3/29/1911 | See Source »

Two methods of reform have been proposed: by business, and by labor. The former is absolutely useless, for business is as rotten as politics. There is the same kind of treason in the insurance companies as in the legislature. Labor is equally unfitted for reform; the San Francisco labor government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Politics the Game" Described | 10/28/1908 | See Source »

While it may be true that the writers of today are not college-bred men, the statement that undergraduate literary work fails to attain a higher standard because the would-be writer "grows stale" seems open to doubt. Is not this failure rather due to a somewhat prevailing tendency among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1898 | See Source »

III. He is a man of more definite policy than any one of the probable Republican nominees.- (1) Has always openly defined his attitude on currency questions: Forum, Feb., 1894.- (a) His determination alone secured the repeal of the Sherman law: Ibid.- (2) No prominent Republican aspirant has so definite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH 6. | 4/28/1896 | See Source »

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