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...attain them. Lowell writes of the advantage which the early risers of literature have over us moderns in gathering words while the dew is still fresh on them. When a word which once had a single exact meaning has been worked to nervous prostration what can we do but invent either a new word or a new use of an old one? When the best metaphors have become an old story, what can we do but bring together in fresh metaphors ideas that were never brought face to face before and trust them to make friends? Strange bedfellows...
...plead for a fair discussion of the war question? It is not fair to Mr. Cutter to brand the 30 who voted against participation in war is "mock martyrs"; such phrases are easy to invent and only confuse and issue. The subject is of such tremendous importance that we must keep it on the plane of clear thinking and honest sincerity. GARDINER LITTELL...
...Gurdjieff Institute," he continued, "conducts along with its other activities, a set of special exercises, which we call 'movement', but which appear as dances. Mr. Gurdjieff didn't invent the dances, he discovered them. They consist of ancient Greek, Egyptian and Buddhist and early Christian sacred classics--4000 all told...
...electron theory is far older than Professor Bohe," he said, "but he did invent a model of the atom which so far has been more successful than any other in explaining certain well known facts in spectrum analysis. His model is probably the most successful and interesting to the physicist that has ever been conceived. His work has been more to establish certain facts about the electron than to prove its existence...
John H. MacCracken,* President of Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.): "I announced that the Lafayette College faculty voted to compete for Edward W. Bok's $100,000 American Peace Award. A special committee will invent our plan. The Peace Award circularized all universities, colleges, law schools, inviting entries. Lafayette was the first to respond...