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...critics and opponents of Greek and Latin studies base their arguments upon the supposed fruitlessness of learning a language of no practical value. The term "dead" language has become a form of opprobrium and the study of Latin and more especially of Greek has been allowed to lapse into discard. While this shift in attitude is understandable and perhaps, in the light of changing needs, condonable, for those who wish to study Greek life and letters the omission of this popular course is a serious and disheartening blow...
...discard the dangerous language of rivalry. We can put aside the empty phrases of 'diplomatic triumphs' or 'shrewd bargains.' We can forget all thought of domination, of selfish coalitions or of balances of power. Those false gods have no place among American neighbors...
...myth of his political power, long a potent factor in American campaigns, was never more devastatingly exploded, for it proved as impotent and soiled as the man around whom it hovered. Besides the end of the Hearst hypothesis, the Literary Digest and Farm Journal polls went into the discard, hurled from their crowing perches by the enormity of their failure. Their era is over, their place to be taken, perhaps, by Dr. Gallup and his attendant prophets...
...brothers in arithmetic, they proceeded to take apart the New Deal's fiscal bookkeeping, subject its parts to scrutiny and discard them, one after another, as unsound, inaccurate, misleading...
...None at all. . . . If we find it does, we'll discard the agreement...