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...lately. I think it is the food in this fetid place. Then too, among the herd of carnivora, whose only thought is on their stomachs, one has no desire to eat. Here the prize steers, the ones selected for the athletic contests, they take to the training tables to fatten. The rest have to fight for scraps anywhere on the outskirts of the campus. I am so finely adjusted that the balance must be easily disturbed, I think, one way or another. At any rate, when I went today to the drug store for my usual luncheon of a banana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 6/1/1923 | See Source »

...members of the Boston Symphony have no time they can depend upon to earn money through lessons or outside work, and thus to fatten their meagre incomes. Under these conditions their demand for a union is no more than a demand for justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAVE THE SYMPHONY | 3/8/1920 | See Source »

...same is true of nations. Among the things which a man may be called on to do are the helping and protecting of others. The same is true of nations. We Americans have passed our national infancy; it is no longer our chief biological function to feed and fatten and protect ourselves. We have reached the age of public responsibility; and unless we wish to invite national atrophy and decline, we must make up our mind to do a man's part in the hard work of the world. The chances that we shall be called upon to defend...

Author: By Prof. W. E. hocking, | Title: MILITARY TRAINING A LOGICAL PART OF COLLEGE | 12/2/1915 | See Source »

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