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...father's life recalls the respect that Congress paid him after his death. You will find nothing loftier in our annals. The three-day recess enabled his fellows to set down their admiration for his single-handed fight against American Imperialism. They felt the prophetic verity of his warning of the train of troubles that "would follow our acquisition of the Philippines. They responded to the memory of the courage of the lone individual who faced the flaming patriotism of Congress and country in the grip of Spanish War victory frenzy, who faced it to the end and with...
...luncheons all over the U. S. tuned in on the broadcast, heard Lord Allenby say: ''Here ... is erected an international monument to Peace and Brotherhood. Under its shadow, jarring sectarians may cease from wrangling; fierce passions be tamed; and men's minds be drawn to loftier ideals...
...through the privileges of university training, have been particularly equipped in mind and in character for the duties of citizenship." The familiar phrase "noblesse oblige" implies that there is for those of superior calibre, those who have had opportunities greater than the average, a code which exacts loftier conduct than the ordinary code requires...
...than 2,750,000, bearing the face of the patriarch on the cover and the legend, "Two Hundredth Anniversary Number." Editor George Horace Lorimer commented on the occasion to the extent of two columns in the editorial section. Said he: ". . . to assist in the evolution of a finer and loftier civilization, to express our national spirit week by week, as truly and concretely as we can-all these are a part of the program of The Saturday Evening Post as it enters upon the third century of its existence...
...happy to say I am not one, has been responsible for the prevalent illusion that one who has climbed lesser peaks can realize what we faced in the conquest of Mt. Child Memorial. This is false. Those who have climbed the lesser peaks like the Farnsworth, or the loftier General Reading Room, can realize only in a degree the perils of the dash to the Child Memorial top that our party attempted last January...