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...Black Hills lies Custer Park, South Dakota's 125,000-acre forest reserve. Famed for its elk, buffalo, trout, natural caves, bottomless lake, needle-like rock-for-mation, Custer Park offered high altitudes and cool breezes to the presidential tourist...
...live within himself. He must paint a dismal background against which the present will seem bright. So that he can say: "Those boys of a drab and dirty day, grown mature, have performed a miracle . . . modern civilization ... a great agricultural empire ... a rich industrial commonwealth . . . out of the bottomless cornucopia of Providence," etc., etc. He accuses men his age of overmuch pride in their material achievements and sentimentality over their oldtime virtues. But then he turns around to ballyhoo Progress harder than anyone and to give his contemporaries credit for planting in Modern Youth a virtue greater than ever. This...
...holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie fire drives Caleb to his beloved's bosom-the bottomless muskeg...
There is, however a limit below which expenses cannot be cut and government still function efficiently. No one need fear that expenses will fall below this limit--the bottomless public purse is surety enough. But the question arises: "Will the gross reduction in expenses suffice to make an appreciable lowering of individual taxes?" The answer is doubtful, but there is evidence to make one believe that it will...
...ability to summon up a catalogue of facts, as from a bottomless well, that marks the educated man from the uneducated. It is the capacity to use facts and see their relations. Thus among Harvard undergraduates who are keenly alive to the present, those events in the past which bear upon the present interest them in proportion to this relation. When Tottel's Miscellany appeared, or who the first Merovingian king was, may be required in a course, but after the examination it is so much deadwood, and as such is speedily forgotten. Four years of plowing through courses...