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...ridiculous optimist," Mr. Andrews admitted but . . . given the bill ... I expect to see real beer off the market before Christmas. . . . Then you will see home-brewing spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Christmas Present | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...gives an optimist the blues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deus Ex Machina | 6/10/1926 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Katrina van Dyke, daughter of famed Professor Henry van Dyke of Princeton, author, uplifter, optimist, onetime U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg (1913-17); to one Murray Peabody Brush Jr., son of the onetime Dean of the College at Johns Hopkins University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...Boston. Brockton, Brighton, and Brookline, chasing--not a burglar--but an idea. When last seen he had queer instrument of a green color under one arm with which he said he hoped to bag the idea. Imagine searching Boston for an idea. I told him he was an optimist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/8/1926 | See Source »

Colleges erect immense new buildings, install new systems, set enrolment limits in the thousands--in short, strain every resource to accommodate more thousands. To what end? Their Gargantuan efforts have certainly not blessed the world with a new Republic of wisdom and virtue. No one but a blind optimist would pretend so. What the mammoth machine has done is to make society over by creating a new class which has given the characteristic color to American life: a complacent, materialistic, pleasure-seeking class of half-educated men and women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IS COLLEGE FUTILE? | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

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