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Before long the old indictment that we are a "nation of economic illiterates" will not apply. Harvard may well be proud of her most recent addition across the Charles and exult in her utter modernity...
...Duce had come to tell the assembled Fascists that Genoa's commerce has recently outstripped that of Marseilles, heretofore the most important Mediterranean port. He had come to exult over the fact that Italy is now constructing more ships* than any other nation except Britain.? He had come to fire Italian hearts with the purpose to make of the Mediterranean an Italian lake...
...Exult, Ye Freshmen...
When he rose exulting in the air, propelled by the toe of the valiant Ropes, looking like the war-angle sounding the onset and hovering o'er the mingling fray, we little thought then, that today he would lie so low, surrounded by weep-ing "Sophs." Exult ye Freshmen, and clap your hands! The wise men who make big laws around a little table, have stretched out their arms to encircle you, and for this once at least, your eyes and noses are protected, you are shielded behind by the aegies of Minerva...
Well might the deputies howl. The majority of them, however, as loyal Fascists, howled for the bill, not against it. Signor Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Internal Affairs, bellowed: "I exult in the bill as a death blow to the liberal democratic system of government!" Another prominent Fascist cried: "It transfers sovereignty from the People, a mere mass of ignorant beings, to the Nation, juridically organized in the State...