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...such dependence on the parental dictum was not the product of a virgin mind. The man who toys each day with pet lions must receive the credit. Surely it is time for him to outrival the poetry of D'Annunxio with a treatise on eugenics. The glory that was Garibaldt learned a thing or two in Brooklyn. Let Italy now return her national debt in kind. Let the Duce take the flower of our American girlhood: Mr. Ziegfield has had his turn...
Since these two diverse views indicated something like a split in the Caillaux Commission, the dictum of M. Henri Franklin-Bouillon, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber, upon the whole matter was marked well. Said he: "It was absurd to send a whole committee to America. One man could have done better. . . . I shall vote against this temporary agreement because it is a mere effort to gain time . . . . Parliament problems which can be put off, and if a five year limit is set on the debt question you can be sure Parliament will take four years...
...will do a textbook of the art and science of politics under democracy--that is, of practical politics, of the polities of job getting and boob bumbing? Surely there is a long felt want there." This is Mr. Mencken's latest dictum. Once again the modern Machiavell speaks the credo he has long assumed. Not a treatise which will lift the ethics of the profession of politics into the realm of the ideal, which will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae...
...Boston bar average half that amount. But there are shining rewards at the top of the profession! They attract all youths and sundry. Some, through sheer ability no matter what school they came from, will attain the goal. But many among them, if we may credit the dictum of the Boston lawyer here cited, will never spin the churn themselves, but ironically will greatly help others to win it. By reason of the incompetent advice which incompetent men among them will give, and by reason of the litigation which the petty attorney seeks always to foster, they will be constantly...
...most valuable feature of studying abroad is the chance it offers for making comparisons between vastly dissimilar peoples. For graduate students, going to France is a broader application of William Allen White's dictum. If you live in the East, go to a Western college; if in the West, go East. Professors, who knew long before Mr. White of the advantage of change of locality in education, never weary of trying to flail inert undergraduates into seeking interesting experiences, and although they are usually unsuccessful, now and then a bold student cuts himself off from the mother-country's apron...