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...protest that has ensued is unwarranted. Lecturing has come to be an honorable profession, and at present it vies with baseball and the movies as a source of fame and fortune. A glance at the year's harvest of lecture-tour celebrities will carry conviction: Margot Asquith, Philip Gibbs, Conan Doyle, Hugh Walpole, and now Emile Coue:--in fact, any Englishman or foreigner with more than seven lines to his credit in the current "Who's Who" is regarded as eligible to lecture the American people. It is a pity that the celebrities of by-gone days could not have...
...Wherefore, we commend unto the Circle of the Elders who forever labor that their charges may gather to the full the harvest of their studies without undue unpleasantness to the latter in the process thereof--we commend unto them the example of Doctor Choqqueguiran, our inspired instructor of logical disputation. It having occurred to him that his pupils were not entirely absorbed in the devolutions of his lectures he struck upon the happy thought of having his pupils demonstrate the workings of the principle of the syllogism by the acting of charades. Thereafter he discovered that the pupils waited upon...
While Yale has had its Freshman-Sophomore rushes and the Sophomores of Princeton and Columbia have reaped a harvest from the sale of Freshman hats and rule cards, Harvard, virtually alone among all the Eastern colleges, has no such customs. Many upper classmen and even freshmen regret it, while graduate students from other institutions maintain that Harvard undergraduates never experience what they commonly term "college life". The criticism is well founded; certainly that kind of college life is conspicuously absent; it runs counter to a fundamental principle of the University...
...their kind who represent Great Britain as a centre of imperialistic intrigue and commercial plotting have no higher object than to make mischief between kindred peoples and financial profit out of a shameful traffic in racial and national prejudices and antipathies. They will reap at best a poor harvest if Canada, Great Britain and the other British nations never forget that he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty. The Montreal Star
...profession of architecture is an attractive one on that the practitioner may use the harvest raining and experience in the different fields of activity necessary for the production of the modern building and its surroundings. Primarily, the architect must make his buildings useful and beautiful; usually, also, it must be economical, it must be safe, and in many cases, it must be a money-making project. The profession therefore offers a wide field for men who are artists, practical planners, construction experts of different kinds, and for men of executive ability in directing construction or of good judgement in real...