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...American educators rightly understood the character, scope, and function of university training in such professions as law and medicine, and to his forceful initiative and convincing advocacy the improvement of medical and legal education in the United States is largely due. These notable contribution to education by no means exhaust the list of his services; indeed, by virtue of his leadership in many fields of social and civic endeavor, he may be confidently acclaimed our first citizen, as he is properly acclaimed our most able and successful educator...
...show is not going to sell on the merits of its love story, but on the strength of its supply of gaud and tinsel. It is one more example of American efficiency. The French and the Spanish have failed miserably and the Spanish have failed miserably to exhaust the possibilities of Morroco. It remained for the American producers of Lady Fair to squeeze the lemon day. North Africa has been combed from West, to East for songs, sets, story, and costumes. And in one conglomerate mass they have been poured out for the glutting of American appetite...
Daimler of England was the first motor car to use the sleeve-valve method of regulating gasoline motor intake and exhaust, the principles of which Charles Y. Knight had worked...
...Brussels two gendarmes lolled last week near a corner of the famed Avenue de Louise, perhaps the most impeccable residential street in Europe. From the leafy Bois de la Cambre a motorcycle sped into the quiet Avenue, its exhaust rat-tatting raucously. The gendarmes' whistles screamed. . . . "Your papers, Monsieur, your license? It is not permitted to circulate upon the Avenue de Louise at such a speed. C'est interdit...
Dabbling in Pascal* the other day, I ran across a few lines that recalled strikingly a paragraph you published under SCIENCE some nine months ago: "But to exhibit to him another wonder quite as amazing, let him examine the most minute things he knows. . . . Dividing these again, let him exhaust his power of forming such conceptions, and then let us consider the last, the least object at which he can arrive. Perhaps he will think that it is the limit of littleness in nature. But I will show him a new abyss. I will paint for him not only...