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...Take heed to avoid all those Games and Sports that are apt to take up much of thy time, or engage thy affections. He that spends all his life in Sports, is like one who wears nothing but fringes, and eats nothing but sauces." Such was Thomas Fuller's comment, a little less than three hundred years...
...queer twists of view that make up their individual outlook on life. His recent address to the students of St. Andrews Universtiy is loaded with his particular brand of whimay; it is loaded also with the most cheerful advice, and words of encouragement that students will be tempted to heed. Such a remark as this is something that only a youthful-minded man could make: "My own theme is Courage, as you should use it in the great fight that seems to me to be coming between Youth and their Betters; by Youth meaning of course you, and by your...
...instead of the community assuming this important function, it left it to private initiative, as has already been explained at some length. Despite nearly a century of experience, had we been willing to heed it, we have almost ignored our moving streets--our transit lines. We have permitted private capital to exploit our transit necessity, and we have gone on planning foot transit street systems during all this time, and wondered since we were doing what we had been doing from the beginning, why the population did not spread out at once to all of the new areas opened...
...Woods, to whom Athens is as real as Broadway. Literature is safe in their hands. Meanwhile the rest of us rush on regardless of the delights they offer us, to look for happiness in State Street or Back Bay. The only sad part is that fewer and fewer give heed to their voices. We may be missing something but there is no time to stop...
Thus England stands between two fires. To refuse to heed the Mohammedan demands means revolt in India and perhaps in Egypt as well. Yet to comply with them would cause the breaking of promises made to Jews and Arabs as to Jerusalem and Mecca, and the return of the Sultan to Constantinople. It would further entail recognition of the power of the Moslem in a British dominion, as well as the relinquishing of India to confusion. For the Hindus are not yet ready for complete self-rule, despite the great extension of powers granted them through an Indianized civil service...