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...high hopes that the new American merchant marine built under the stress of war would bring back the heyday of American ocean commerce have been severely shaken by the recurrent deficits of the Shipping Board budgets. The experience of the past few years seems to prophesy all too plainly that with the passing of the famous clipper ships went forever American mercantile supremacy. Various explanations have been offered which characteristically center in an abuse of government management, but the almost obvious reason is the same that prevented the development of a merchant marine before the war--the fact that Americans...
...disillusioned by the failure of his greatest enterprise, the Grosses Schauspielhaus, the national German theatre which housed five thousand, and essayed epic dramas on a grand scale, Reinhardt stopped producing for several years. His American venture is viewed by the critics as an attempt to "come back." In the heyday of his fame he was all things...
This condition is particularly prevalent in winter, the heyday of the warm fire and the good book. Then although major sports are least active the minors in general are the poorest in material. Athletics may be valuable, athletics may be almost necessary, but they hold little interest in January...
...they write themselves out more quickly. A few years ago I had the pleasure of conducting over Harvard a well known English author who, to my astonishment, told me that it was the first university of which he had ever been inside the walls. He was then in the heyday of prominence; but I notice already that he appears less often in print and his name is less currently on the lips. The unschooled mind is likely to lack staying power. It can be clever, brilliant, up like a rocket; but if it doesn't always come down like...
...heyday of the elective system it was possible for a man to graduate from college with a smattering of sixteen subjects and a grounding in none. More recently, without abandoning the ideal of a general education, we have swung toward concentration in a single subject and related subjects...