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Unfortunately Miss Sears has been completely carried away by the romantic but overworked idea of King Philip leading the "noble red man" against the cruel and heartless force of oncoming civilization. Certainly there was something that was noble in the Indians' struggle, and Miss Sears has an inkling of it, but she has been so carried away by this small inkling that she has turned the whole war into an idealistic struggle against fate waged by a nation of sentimental philosophers...
...Heartless Giants...
...pamphlet with a full text of his suits. a quotation on corporate reorganization from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers and the Receivers . . . are evolving a scheme to seize the properties of our company for a mere fraction of their value. . . . Heartless Financial Giants ... and their allied Newsprint competitive company have marked us for their prey. . . ." Edward Wellington Backus was taken to the Minnesota prairies as a child during the Civil War. He worked his way through four years of college, tried carpentering, tried bookkeeping and finally borrowed...
Diagnosing his trouble as heartlessness, Nina set to work to galvanize the atrophied organ-into life. She sent him books, messages, messengers; she talked to him. reasoned with him, finally took to visiting him every day and reading aloud from heart-softening philosophical books. Chivalrous Mr. Ganson stood it quite a long time, then went to John and asked him to call Nina off. But by that time the mischief was done: heartless Mr. Ganson had fallen in love with her. When Nina discovered how much too well she had succeeded, she wept, cheered up. went away, leaving John...
...CRIMSON will perhaps remember that rather sweeping statement in the last sentence; that almost evry important item in the early history of Harvard College, and in a lesser sense today, has arisen out of grave problems of food supply and demand. This was of course a rash and heartless statement, based on a newspaper man's false notion that the world moves on sentiment and sensation. But before the writer pleads guilty of ignoring the "great underlying forces which have molded Harvard's glorious history" he would like to point out that, of Harvard, the Great Rebellion does not mean...