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Alexandre Millerand (1920-1924), 67, a lawyer of Clarence Darrow calibre, for 40 years a Deputy, the outstanding World War French War Minister, subsequently Commissioner-General for Alsace-Lorraine, a lifelong champion of decentralized government, pugnacious, obstinate, cursed by a lack of political foresight, prominent in the die-hard political Right, forced to resign the Presidency when Herriot succeeded in forming the Coalition of Left Parties...
...there is another appeal which the Times might have made, had it chanced to widen its phraseology. If mere politics be a phase of life little less limited than academic concerns nevertheless the sum of matters beyond the academic horizon is worthy more diligent student foresight. The pitch and toss of business, the processes of manufacture, professional contingencies, all are ultimates for students now in comparative remoteness from them; and the thought of the individual student could hardly be better employed than in choosing or pondering the chosen ultimate...
...work of one man has been largely responsible for the change in fortunes of this particular organization, and to him praise is due. His enthusiasm and ability aroused interest, his foresight created a wholly new unit of undergraduate activity. His personal qualities have dominated this organization, and the organization has responded to a remarkable degree. But like all men in college, he must pass on and leave his work to those who follow...
...Field, headmaster of Milton Academy, Mass., where many a Harvard man is schooled, lays out the fundamental studies boys must undertake to pass the college entrance examinations; urges parents and teachers to inculcate "independent foresight...
Clarence Dillon is not the first genius to appear on Wall Street, but all geniuses have their special characteristics. Besides honesty, foresight, courage and decision, what distinguishes this Texas-born, Harvard-bred, widely-traveled young man is an attitude toward business - and life - that is commonly called the artistic attitude. What other men make a labor, he makes an art. Before he tried his hand at business he idled in Europe for two years studying art and architecture. "I never expected to become a professional painter, or to build houses," he says, but he still delights to execute an etching...