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...finance can hardly be avoided, but to offset these disadvantages all that would seem to be necessary is the development of a tradition of bold analysis and liberalism. Nor is it necessary to wait for such a tradition to arise slowly. Discussion, unbiased and unprejudiced, should be able to construct a habit of liberalism in a comparatively short time...
...economic tutors can find places in the officers of Holyoke House, but the 47 Workshop is apparently left without a home. Since it manages to get along without its own stage or theatre it might be expected with equal ingenuity to discover some neglected basement in which to construct scenery and rehearse its plays...
...that is necessary in order to immortalize a person, a locality, or even an inanimate object, is to have some near great poet commemorate its existence in deathless verse. At once tables are erected, little fences constructed, and the lives of prominent visitors made tedious with tours of inspection, personally conducted by a legal and enthusiastic peasantry. Unfortunately; however, human nature is of so frail a cast that when a poet has exercised his skill on behalf of some deserving object. Impostures are promptly brought into being by envious souls yearning for similar redirected glory, who also erect tablets, construct...
...what three prominent men in the last century has it been necessary to construct special chairs??Judge David Davis of Illinois, once President pro tempore of the Senate; Boies Penrose, Senator from Pennsylvania and William H. Taft (as President) all had special chairs built to accommodate their proportions...
...Comte de Bresson brought before Parliament a proposal to construct canals running from St. Nazaire, the French port, to Switzerland and linking up with the great Central European canals. If adopted the canal would afford continuous water traffic from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, across France and along the Danube. The brain of Voltaire, famed cynic, philosopher, friend of Frederick the Great, grandfather of rationalism and the French Revolution, was offered the Comédie Française as a gift by a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed the body of the great writer. The gift will...