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...story of an obscure benefactor of the college, who chose to call himself George Smith. Where he was born nobody knows. He came into the world as Connelly, son of a porter in the employ of a great mercantile house in St. Louis. The name indicates his adventurous and individualist spirit. One regrets that he abandoned it for its neutral substitute. He did this in honor of James Smith, head of the firm, who, without adopting him, treated him as a son. Mrs. Smith was equally fond...
Modern artists have apparently reached a stage of development which would defy even the criticism of the most conservative critics. A certain Mr. Deckinson of the individualist faith, having painted a picture entitled "The Fossil Hunters" in ghostly gray with a recumbent old man delicately pointing a twig in the general direction of a grind stone in the semi-abstract, won a five hundred dollar prize. Unfortunately, the photographer commissioned to take a picture of this work of art, being a conservative in the matter of posing and of regard for the limitations of his patrons, noted something amiss...
...fashioned Harvard individualist, and an opponent of the 'undifferentiated efficiency' of the modern college and university. I believe that these institutions should be reserved for men who plan to enter the advanced professions, such as toaching. Harvard, among others, is taking a great many men for whom a college equation is an expensive, and useless, luxury...
...Hoover, whose philosophy proclaims him an individualist of individualists, suffering the campaign so utterly to eclipse his personality? At the close of the War he was a figure for legend. . . . Now when the supreme opportunity opens before him he is become the Great American Abstraction...
...breach comes Keyserling, bringing with him The Correct Statement of the Marriage Problem. In his role of philosopher-guide he unfolds four principles upon which the marriage of the future must be based if success is to be assured. There are in these four principles no loopholes for the individualist; the development of self for which we raise our modern hue and cry gets short shift beside the more universal principles of Keyserling's philosophy. As he agrees at the outset "the fundamental problems of life cannot be settled according to a schedule, because they are both in reality...