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...would seem. Never before have the products of our scholastic green-houses been so much in demand; in order to supply the market, our few hardy perennials in the way of tutoring schools, have been reenforced by a host of smaller "bureaus" which have sprung into being, mushroom--like. Nor is it difficult to find the, life-giving force which has coaxed these seedlings through the hard intellectual crust of Cambridge--never before have the rates for tutoring been so high: Our mathematical economists have not been slow to figure out a close relation between the high tariff on "repeated...
Meanwhile our "Eastland," our Peabody and Triangle fires, our child labor problems and our huge production of munitions for private profit in mushroom towns where labor laws are laughed at or abrogated, all these stare us in the face when we speak of "national honor and human justice...
...anybody seen the Opera Association? Is it to be another College mushroom, come and gone in a year? Perhaps we are looking for it to crop up before its season; perhaps it is intending to surprise us some fine morning by bursting into sudden glory; perhaps it will not be as unwieldy an organization to handle as in its infancy. Al these things are conjectures. But we know that a great many men are making their yearly resolutions to take advantage of the Opera this winter and would be glad to hear the Associations awake and stretch itself. May they...
...look upon this institution as a possible rival of our own University, but we can console ourselves with the thought that such an institution as Mr. Clark has conceived, is the result of years of development and growth; that such an institution cannot spring into existence like a mushroom, no matter how great a golden mine is available, nor how deep the purse of the founder. Mr. Clark is doubtless sincere in thinking that another institution of learning is necessary in the State, but we consider that Harvard, Yale and the rest of our eastern colleges are amply able...
...bore more resemblance to a bog than to a foot-ball ground. Along the base lines of the old diamond ran turbulent little rivers, continually replenished by the driving rain. On each side of the field were clusters of umbrellas that seemed to have sprung into existence like a mushroom crop...