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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inhabitants are not unnaturally hostile to the strangers who come to disturb their ancestral monuments. Add to this the tremendous difficulties of language and the state of affairs that enabled one civilization to remain practically unknown while another reached a high stage of development from totally different sources becomes less inexplicable than first sight would seem to indicate...
Explaining the phenomenon does not make it any the less undesirable. The intellectual curiosity that led men of the Renaissance to restore to the world the literature of Greece and Rome is today turned to scientific rather than literary discoveries; economic and political changes have come so thick and fast during recent year that they have not yet lost the fascination of novelty for the public, but the existence of such a vast expanse out side the mental bounds of any civilization will remain a constant reproach to its leaders until it be included...
...none the less, 'tis true-At diction, self-proclaimed...
...opposed to prohibition. I was opposed to it because I thought there would be great difficulty in its enforcement, it being more or less like a sumptuary law. Second, I was opposed to it because I thought it too greatly enlarged the power of the central government, already too large; and, third, I was opposed to it because, introduced into national politics, we would never as long as it remained the subject of political discussion settle any other issue clearly and emphatically by the judgment of all the people, because some extremes on both sides would insist on thrusting prohibition...
...management of the new Boston Garden in an exclusive interview with a CRIMSON representative, the deicing process and the arrangement of seating accommodations takes but two hours. After using the space of the ice surface for other purposes a new layer of ice can be created in less than six hours in the early morning...