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...title should not automatically pass, hut should be acquired only from the state. Shorefront property holders have benefitted by millions through the present law, and for once they shivered slightly when the proposal was made to halt the present practise. But the proposed repeal was soon put into the discard by the triumphant clan of realtors; and Florida's record as a 100% Utopia for the wealthy has been preserved intact...
...Lukeman accepted the invitation to complete the figures on Stone Mountain, announced that he would discard all Borglum's designs, make new ones which would include a "Hall of Fame" at the base of the monument. Said he: "I consider that this is the greatest opportunity which has come to a sculptor for centuries." Said Borglum: "Delighted...
...this excellent institution for no very obvious reason, lapsed into discard? Such an organization performs manifold services. For developing ability in clear and forceful expression, it has no rival. It would be useful as a clearing-house of undergraduate and graduate, even faculty, opinion. But principally the value of this sort of organization lies in forcing young men to think about the problems they will soon, be called on to face. In the Oxford Union the great issues of the nineteenth century were first tussled over. The Debating Union can fulfill a real function; as a center of learning...
...American mobocracy, having destroyed all personal tyrants, delights to impose the tyranny of custom upon itself. The latest outrage is a strict order that all good Americans must discard their winter footgear by the first of May, if they dare to appear upon the streets. The annual straw hat joke is perpetrated so thoroughly that to the vulgar mind a soft hat seems ridiculous after a certain date. Advertising and the mob's fear of itself have set this barbaric custom beyond the reach of common sense. If the boot and shoe dealers succeed in their resolution of attaching another...
...strong intellect applies its own criteria and finds its own solutions. It cooperates unwillingly, and cooperation is the basis of political strength. Only a blind unity of viewpoint can make a group act together, and that blindness the intelligentsia tries to discard. The crude forces which work throughout the state will always laugh at the impotence of the philosophical spirits which...