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...Thomas Stead of the British Review of Reviews that the British Empire join with the U. S. Republic under a constitution based on the U. S. Cried Rhodes: "I take it-I take it! ... Dear me, how ideas expand. I thought my ideas were tolerably large, but yours have outgrown them. Yes, yes, you are quite right!" So Cecil Rhodes set up a ?1,000,000 trust fund (now grown to ?2,000,000) to bring 68 young men annually from the colonies, from the U. S. and Germany to attend Oxford for three years, to learn England and understand...
...sees his country taking the lead. Five years or so ago it was the fashion to regard Hearst as a "failure" and a "tragic figure"-but though he may need cash (as always) and though his papers' prestige is low now that the country has outgrown them in both directions, above and below, it is doubtful that so subtle a mind as Hearst's is trapped in tragedy. He knows he has lived a great life and bent the course of millions of other lives. By the dark mental spiral that is called "inconsistency" he can accommodate himself...
Stillman Infirmary was built in 1901 as a retreat for Harvard men suffering from those minor ailments which could not be cared for in a dormitory, and were not serious enough to take to a hospital. In its thirty years of existence it has outgrown this original purpose, and has become a small, but real hospital, caring for almost any illness contracted by a member of the University. Unfortunately neither the personnel of the Infirmary, nor its equipment has kept pace with its changing purpose...
...world is to secure economic peace . . . the first point of attack is to secure greater stability in currencies. . . . In all the welter of discussion there are some who are maintaining that the world has outgrown the use of gold as a basis of currency and exchange. . . . But we have to remember that it is a commodity the value of which is enshrined in human instincts for over 10,000 years. The time may come when the world can safely abandon its use altogether but it has not yet reached that point. . . . The fears and apprehensions directed to the stability...
...only a few English poems of the Romantic Movement. Be prefers the short ones, and a few pieces of Wordsworth. Keats, he showed, was attaining a higher criterion for poetical values. Be indicated passages in Keat's letters, which more than anything else, show this romanticist to have outgrown the pulpit type of poetry. Mr. Eliot differed with Keats on the latter's pronouncement that Beauty is Truth and vice versa. "No one will deny that much truth is ugly," he said...