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Bernarr Macfadden has been utterly sincere in his physical culture theories. His Foundation is solemnly incorporated "to maintain, conduct and operate educational activities, including schools and institutions, in which the said health building methods are taught; to establish scholarships and foundations and other means of support for advocates of the said health building methods ... to maintain sanitariums and other institu tions . . . gymnasiums and camps and other outdoor recreational facilities . . . to promote amongst all classes of people the knowledge of right living and health ful living and the care of their bodies, which are essential to right living and good citizenship...
...triumph of the soul of man over his environment. Thomas Chalmers, the great Scottish divine, in his treatise on the adaptation of external nature to the moral and intellectual constitution of man, speaks of an "elate independence of the soul." That independence is more difficult to declare and maintain in extremes either of want or luxury. The distresses of today or the anxieties for the morrow on the one hand, and the surfeits of the senses or the responsibilities of riches on the other, dispute the soul's sovereignty...
...first annual meeting, held last evening, the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau decided to maintain offices at 763 Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square to supplement its usual quarters at Gannett House. H. B. Ely 3L was elected president of the bureau for the coming year, it was further announced last night...
Hotel prestige is a fickle thing; to maintain it is difficult. The backers of the new Waldorf-Astoria have undertaken an even more difficult task, that of recreating in the new hotel all the grandeur and glory of the old semi-national institution at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, qualities which had begun to fade long before the building's demolition...
...Starks took over the Sebastopol Burbank Test Orchards which they now maintain for development and test of Burbank fruits which Burbank never had time to introduce. Most important result of their work is Burbank's Elephant Heart plum, a red-fleshed plum almost as big as a, baseball, the first freestone, blood-fleshed plum ever developed. Trees to bear this luscious giant planted two years ago (from Wisconsin to Alabama, California to New York) have lived and borne this year despite dry summer and hard winter...