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...often an impossibility for her students to make the effort necessary to reach them. Only two or three times a year, to hear a particularly well known artist, does the reasonably enthusiastic music lover gain the lower frontier of Huntington avenue. Such infrequent exposure to one of the noblest, of the fine arts is not enough to make any appreciable difference in one's knowledge. But at last the mountain, or at any rate a very satisfactory foothill, has come to Mohammed, and henceforth only actual indifference to music can excuse a lack of familiarity on the part of Harvard...
Dispassionate observers were bewildered. They saw a series of feuds and fritterings which threatened to vitiate perhaps the noblest conception of U. S. artistic history...
However, let me tell you why I joined the Corps in preference to being a Harvard man. First, there is pride of profession. We are proud of the fact that our profession is one of the oldest and the noblest of all. We are proud of the fact that our career is one that deals with the building of men. In the army, men are taken from all parts of the country, from all walks of life. They come largely from the drift, mostly in the raw. From this material of flesh and blood, we build an organization that must...
Throughout Scandinavia moose hunting is esteemed the noblest use of fire arms. Accordingly there is drastic enforcement of laws protecting wild moose out of season. But next winter a determined Parliamentary lobby will urge modification of the game law in the interest of the Swedish Match Co., a gigantic monopoly of such wealth and potency that it occasionally makes governmental loans to the smaller states of Europe...
Proponents of war, if any still dare so to style themselves, have excused the slaughter of millions on Malthusian grounds of reasoning; but not even the most heartless science can acquit humanity of guilt in the destruction of its noblest attainments. And still the nations, without even the wisdom of a burnt child, rush to heap ever higher their piles of weapons, that they know must inevitably, unless some power can stop the insane contest, fall upon them and bury them once more...