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Lonely, fearing he was the only one of his kind on earth, John went off to the Scottish Highlands to think things over. There he learned to live like a savage, learned also how to add a cubit to his spiritual stature. When he came back to civilization he was able to communicate telepathically with other superior human beings like himself. Most of the older ones were in insane asylums. But gradually John collected a motley little band of superior children, took them off to an uncharted Pacific island to found a real civilization. Before they could do much...
...wholeness." Such a system is impossible. The art of living can not be acquired through contemplation of present problems in their relation to the aspects of an older civilization. Men cannot through study erect a formula for the satisfactory life any more than he can add a cubit's length to his height by taking thought. Education, if it is to mean anything, must equip the student with a foundation upon which he can build the edifice of his life. This can only be accomplished by a sound, careful study of a few facts, an analysis of certain principles...
Roosevelt v. Smith. In the popular mind, last week's elections added a cubit or so to the stature of GovernorFranklin Delano Roosevelt of New York as Democracy's lead candidate for the Presidency. Still across his availability fell the uncertain shadow of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Last month Governor Roosevelt and Mr. Smith got into a squabble over what otherwise would have been viewed as a political triviality on the New York State ballot. Submitted to the people was a proposal to amend the Constitution so that the State might spend some $20,000 over a period of years buying...
...small; instead of seeing an establishment got up for him and ingratiatingly placed at his disposal, it appears rather to delight in minimizing his importance--with the natural result. Dwindling in his own eyes, he reasserts himself, though that is at first a bit difficult. He cannot subtract one cubit from the stature of those collegiate halls whose very size and costliness and grandeur overawe and humiliate him. He cannot lighten by so much as an ounce the pressure of undergraduate opinion, which, finding him not only insignificant but at numerous points objectionable, sets out to work him over into...
According to that well established authority, the Bible, it is impossible for a man to add a cubit to his stature by taking thought, but it does not say anything about detracting a cubit or even more from a woman's girth by the same process. In this respect Mitzi, star of "The Madcap" now playing at the Shubert Theatre goes the Good Book one better, for she gives a formula for taking off weight which consists mostly of taking thought...