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...modern demand for tabulated materialism, Roger W. Babson statistical expert, does not hesitate to condemn the increasing prostitution of school and church by the mechanics of commercial success. "The educational institutions of the country have gone materially mad and our churches are equally guilty," is the dictum of the mathematical prophet. And by educational institutions he means both the elementary schools and the universities. "Our colleges are diploma factories for department stores, giving away anything wanted, irrespective of whether it makes for happiness or discontent." The old problem of serving God and Mammon has taken on a new meaning...
...several votes as a unit for some Democratic Presidential candidate. Again they cast them, again and again,* until in desperation they compromise on some one who can attain the two-thirds majority necessary for Democratic nomination. Last week John W. Davis, one-time nominee (1924), corporation lawyer emitted a dictum and a prophesy for his party: The dictum: "One delegate, one vote; the majority of votes to nominate." Both the "two-thirds" and the "unit" rules should be abolished. The prophecy: "If the proposed change is a good thing for the party, it will be a good thing...
Success is a bale of straw in front of the ass's head. Mr. Andrus, having achieved success as a straphanger, seeks success as an oracle, and like most oracles his dictum is obscured by his ignorance. There are too many college men, but there will not be as soon as men learn that success is not assured by a college education. Then those men will come who seek here something upon which they can hang any laurel wreaths that may happen to win, something, too, which will make them careless whether they ever win the laurels. When activity, subways...
Resistlessly impelled by latent causes of unrest, a revolution burst at Warsaw last week, ran its triumphant course. Once more was recalled the dictum of that outspoken Austrian, General Pflanzer: "Ha! The Poles? Sir, they are one-third magpies, one-third rabbits, one-third LIONS...
...managing editor has asked me t' say uh word about a very gud frend of his entitled Otto who is t' appear at th' Union at 7.30 o'clock tunite. I don't need no dictum frum him, sence Otto is uh old frend of mine...