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...attainment of a goal long in view, the consummation of an event devoutly wished for, is likely to assume the proportions of tragedy in the life of the individual. Gibbon sat down on a moonlight night after completing his labors of forty years on the Decline and Fall and philosophized on the vanity of human achievement. It is the feeling which comes to the athlete after the objective game, to the ordinary man after the last final examination, and to the Senior in the ultimate anti-climax,--Commencement Week. Viewed as ends in themselves such accomplishments may well...
What are "fancy spellings" in your opinion? Is plain, correct spelling to be considered "fancy"? Why did you sit Reader Gibbon down so hard [TIME...
TIME meant no harshness toward Reader Gibbon. TIME merely defended its policy of printing letters as received, misspellings...
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...Postmaster W. J. O'Callaghan of Nashville, Tenn., to sell the U. S. mail service to Nashvillians. The emanations of Dr. O'Callaghan addressed to "Mr. Nashville Businessman" ran on exuberantly, telling of Cyrus the Great of Persia who had " a snappy mail service," quoting Gibbon on Rome, explaining the function of the Swiss yodelers, glorifying the Pony Express and the air mail. Last September, Dr. O'Callaghan held a pageant to exhibit his mighty works-with "an original, Historical and Educational Cavalcade of Floats, Men and Costumes, with Lessons on Correct Method of Addressing Mail Matter...