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...less than the route via San Francisco. Since Dole pineapples fill 5,000.000 cases a year (125,000 short tons), 33% of the Island's total, other steamshipmen protested, wished Godspeed to President William P. Roth of Matson Navigation Co. when he set out for Manhattan to chide Mr. Farrell...
This year, as in 1891 and in 1922, critics dispute his talents. To be sure they do it reverently as befits a colossus who has been endowed with intellect, imagination, magnetism. Yet they chide him gently for banging at the piano, for sliding over details and being content too often with broad jagged splashes of color, for limited programs that have been given over and over again. Paderewski takes no notice. He never reads the reviews of his concerts. His life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays...
...more of these purposes, President Lowell points out, need be subject to none of the ills commonly charged against the examination system. Illuminating, for example, is the application of this reasoning to the criticism, frequently heard, that a certain student works for grades rather than for knowledge. "To chide a tennis-player for training himself with a view to winning a match, instead of acquiring skill in the game would be absurd, because the two things are the same. If marks in examinations do not measure accurately comprehension of the subject as taught in the course and the power...
Indifference is a good cloak: it helps to keep one a good Democrat or a good Republican or even a good citizen, but it is hard on posterity. Some morning, say twenty cycles and four immensities ahead, the human race will wake up and chide the government because there is no sun. At 10 A. M. the officials, working by electric light, will have digged far into the ancient archives in search of prophecies concerning the present catastrophe. By 4 P. M. perhaps they will have found this entry: "Collision in Lyria...
...Banks,. L. D. Egbert vs. Winner of Jay vs. Hill, winner of Chase vs. Tsao vs. Winner of Emmet vs. Marsh, H. Huang vs. J. c. Jacobson, H. W. Harris vs. R. W. Harris, T. B. Buffum vs. winner of Houser vs. Taggard, D. M. King vs. winner of Chide vs. Carver, W. T. Richards vs. a. Knox...