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...Early Life. Born in Breslau, Germany, in 1865, the son of a Government railway official, he studied in the Universities of Breslau and Berlin and the Zurich Polytechnic, specializing in mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry and electrical engineering. In 1889 a young American schoolmate persuaded him to come with him to America in the steerage. Steinmetz has been a life-long hunchback, and this, with a temporary illness, defective sight, no money, little English, almost kept him out of the U. S. But the Ellis Island officials finally admitted him on the pleas of his friend...
...Dyke's book has naturally provoked a chorus of opposition on the part of critics and museum directors. His views are flatly opposed not only to those of Bode, but of Valentiner, Muther, Bredius, De Groot, McColl and others who have made a life-long study of Rembrandt. The Metropolitan authorities, represented by Bryson Burroughs, curator of paintings, frankly deride his opinions, and believe their Rembrandts genuine. G. Frank Muller, E. M. Sperling, Raymond Henniker-Heaton, and other American experts are equally skeptical, though Joseph Pennell, the etcher, inclines to Van Dyke's side of the controversy...
Autocracy, successful in business, is not always effective in government. That is why even Mr. Edison, life-long friend, will not vote for Ford for President...
True to his life-long contention that the strike is organized labor's one effective and indispensable weapon, Mr. Gompers warned labor to beware of capitalistic and reactionary propaganda which would persuade the laboring man that co-operative labor banks may do away with the need for strikes. "The necessity for the strike will cease," he says, " only when there are no longer conditions imposed upon wage earners against their will and to which they cannot agree...
...Quadrangler feels that it would be deplorable "if the old-fashioned college, unable to stand the strain of competitions, were forced either out of existence entirely or to scrap its early ideals and life-long traditions." And we agree entirely, although to do so may seem inconsistent with the impression of our attitude that our correspondent has. The latter speaks of the "new tendency" and our apparent fear or contempt of it. "We are" says Cyril, "afraid of nothing; and as for contempt, that is a snobbish feeling, and snobbery arises out of fear that someone will discover...