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...peculiar attribute of the liberal college to develop. To follow the eloquent flight of the News editorial, "College book learning is primarily instruction in where to get and how to appreciate not only pure in formation, but all the finest ideas, proven or unproven, all the loftiest conceptions, all the most poetic dreams that the world has created and saved...
...Government of the United States has no ambition other than to aid in the attainment of these aims. . . . As delegates our loftiest hope is to promote the interests of peace. ... It is in this spirit that we consecrate ourselves to the task before...
...scaffold, of Arthur Lomax. The colored glasses he bought in Egypt so marvelously altered the aspect of life that he married Miss Whitaker, murdered his yachtsman host, Bellamy, and left Bellamy's money to Artivale, the scientist of the cruise-all with the loftiest of motives. In court, bereft of the illusive spectacles, normal Arthur Lomax could quite understand the jury's incredulity. His was the tragedy of the man who made believe and had his dream come true...
...first place, Evolution is not foolish. Anyone who tries to laugh aside as a joke this great monument of intellectual advancement becomes himself ridiculous. It is food for the loftiest thought. Here, as everywhere else, the revelations of science have proved, beyond comparison, more uplifting and inspiring than any product of the human imagination, such as the myth about Adam...
...Irving-Berlin would "give his right arm to do it," but feels technically unfit. Jerome Kern, who refused to try an opera six years ago, favors the scheme, whether he or another carries it out. George Gershwin, whose orchestral piece, A Rhapsody in Blue, is so far jazz's loftiest flight, is regarded as probably the best-equipped to comply with the demands of operatic composition...