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...Cambridge tends too much to the dilettante, Harvard is not dilettante enough. Apart from that, I think that Cambridge, though harassed about its aims, subconsciously postulates certain functions of a university and satisfactorily fulfills them, whereas Harvard seems undecided as to what its functions should be. In preparing for livelihood rather than life it loads the undergraduate with course work, assignments, and examinations, in the attempt to teach him a variety of subjects. Very little energy is left for association outside the classroom another name for this lack of energy is indifference. Despite its superficiality, the ordinary Cambridge society which...
...national sensation once more is felicity's zenith for Upton Sinclair, a fact which neither his enemies nor his friends have properly assayed. He is not a crackpot, but he is inordinately vain. He has not made a livelihood of scandalmongering; he has written because he was hurt. He is not an atheist; he is disgusted by commercialized religion. He is "not a "free-love"' cultist; he is an ascetic. His soft manners, his kindly eye, his intense, humorless and uncritical idealism, his obsession with the struggle of Labor and Capital for the fruits of Industry mark...
...dams he poured out his unaffected enthusiasm for electric power: "I always believed in that old saying of 'More power to you'. . . . This country, which is looking pretty bare today, is going to be filled with the homes of men, women and children who will be making an honest livelihood...
...composer- Alexander Porfirievitch Borodin. Soviets approve Borodin's music as vigorous, direct, heroic, with a true Russian flavor unblemished by oldtime Russian melancholy. Alexander Porfirievitch was a sane and optimistic artist. As the bastard son of a Prince of Imeretia he never had to worry for his livelihood. His father received a life-long pension after the Empire annexed his little kingdom in 1810. As a boy Alexander Porfirievitch played expertly on the piano, the cello, the flute. But he also showed a talent for medicine which his family regarded as a more respectable profession. He served two years...
...aside 2.2 for PWA projects. Not more than 251,000 men had been given work directly. As Great Britain could testify, the straight dole had proved less expensive, more effective. With $400,000,000 from PWA funds, 4,000,000 jobless had received CWA chores and a livelihood for three and a half months. Even the CCC provided a better employment buy than PWA. With $323,000,000 from PWA, CCC had kept 300,000 young men busy in the woods since last summer...