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...this age of topsy-turvyism, and free speech, love, art, music ad infinitum, why does not some sedate mathematics teacher, in an effort to prolong youth and a gleaming eye,--write a new Algebra book? In it he should cast aside all the pomps and vanities of the wicked world, the lusts of the flesh--as well as precedent and have Y win the race, make the money, get the largest part of the apple and marry Mrs. X. He (Y) deserves it after all these centuries...
There was already a plan in existence aiming at the maintenance of world peace ad infinitum. This document was called the Covenant of The League. The new ideas, it was decided, should not interfere with the Covenant, but should reinforce it. A protocol to the Covenant was the method adopted of putting the new ideas into effect. It was early decided to reserve the matter of disarmament for a special international conference to be convoked at Geneva on June...
...from Holland and had just six months more in which to reach Marseilles in order to win a wager. He travels about five miles a day. His method of progression is to put his hands on the ground, lift his feet, turn a neat somersault, repeat the process ad infinitum...
That his criticism is largely destructive and his solutions scarcely original is nothing to cavil at. Both criticisms and solutions are similar to those offered by Harvard graduates the country over. The first subject has been discussed ad infinitum ever since President Lowell sent up his famous "sounding balloon" in his report of two years ago. The second has been even more a point of dispute since the issue of limitation was raised last spring. The lesson to be learned by the College from this continued interest on the part of the Alumni is that the situations must...
...past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds of the world, for the foundations of civilization...