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Above all, Rhodes wanted his scholars to be leaders-men who in later life would "esteem the performance of public duties as their highest aim." If he meant government and politics (and Aydelotte thinks he did), then his scholars have betrayed him; less than 7% have gone into government service. But the Rhodes trustees and Aydelotte are not sorry: "A man can render public service . . . without holding government office." Some 35% are in education, 21% in law, 13% in business, 5% in medicine, 5% in journalism and radio. Present trends: toward government service and journalism, away from...
...Definition. At first the Special Envoy listened much, spoke little. He was direct, straightforward, unfailingly polite. Soon his visitors referred to him as "The Old Professor," a token of esteem in China, where the scholar still ranks above the other three classes (farmers, artisans and merchants) of society...
...America has been, and must ever continue to be, under God, the Beacon of Liberty . . . the proof that humanity can live in mutual respect based on the law of God, voiced through the conscience of man, and in mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life...
...past drawn upon her and retained the attention of the public. Thousands of persons . . . have lent a credulous ear to . . . strange reports on the child's pretensions. . . . People have cried 'miracle'. . . . Comparisons have gone so far as to compare the girl to Bernadette of Lourdes. . . . We esteem that [this] was, in truth, according her too great an honor...
...answer was the Yukon town of Whitehorse-as a bank clerk once more, but a bank clerk with what he calls an "author complex." In Whitehorse he was not particularly popular. ("I have never been popular. To be popular is to win the applause of people whose esteem is often not worth the winning.") His one social accomplishment was his recitation of Casey at the Bat, Gunga Din, The Face on the Barroom Floor...