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...University he fell easily into the beer-drinking, dueling, heavily jovial life of the student clubs. He was never able to drink more than 18 mugs of beer at a sitting, however. An attempt to conquer Berlin with his pen failed utterly?he went back to his father's farm?a failure?known everywhere as " the student who had wasted his time...
...Death did not conquer Christ, but the Scriptures do not teach a physical resurrection...
...been spilt,--has appeared to carry out Dante's dream. Perhaps it is a further waste of ink to say more of this Benito Mussolini. But he is a figure who challenges comparison; one who has not proved a short-lived upstart, nor yet an overbearing Napoleon, seeking to conquer Europe; but one whose rule has been characterized by sanity and vigor. Recently he has given additional proof of his many-sided genius, by active interest in a movement to improve the moral standard of Italian literature, and again by a proclamation requesting the observance of the fiftieth anniversary...
...after all, the play is not merely a collection of character sketches. It is a fundamentally moral dissertation to prove that the world cannot be reformed overnight, and that common sense can usually conquer pure idealism. It is serious, emotional, dramatic, interesting. Perhaps it is too serious and too emotional--there is rather too much oratory, and the sentiment is a little too obvious. The author, like his hero, seems too much imbued with the spirit of romanticism to suit this twentieth century taste; but he does well in spite of his defects, and the acting carries the whole through...
Unable to conquer his wanderlust, he next went to sea and spent three years before the mast. Then he returned to Oregon and took out a homestead claim in the woods, where he lived until 1909. At this time he became interested in the I. W. W. movement and, selling his land, went abroad to study law, languages and the labor problem...