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The death of a man or woman of genius must always appear in the light of a spiritual catastrophe, national to the country whose artistic potentialities are reduced by the loss, acutely personal to the immediate circle from which the individual has been withdrawn. Amy Lowell is dead. In her...
I next approached a dignified old Prophezzor whose erudition. I was told, is simply oppressive. "Knowledge is the basis of education" he explained. "Memory is the key to knowledge. My course on the poet Omar is the sine quo non of an education because it develops brain capacity. It is...
Phillips Brooks House has slumbered through another report and still the college believes that Social Service is anything but a silly name. Year after year the student is buoyed up by the hysteria of platform idealism to undertake something for which he has neither time nor interest. Year after year...
The effects of the storm were felt by miners 500 feet below the surface. The tales of the survivors on the surface were pitiful. One, that of a laborer who was traveling in an automobile and jumped out when he saw the storm coming, is an example:
"If men with a cultural background can be persuaded to enter Big Business. Big Business needs them. But so does the stage. And it has begun to get them, numerous additions to a pitiful handful, young men from Harvard. Yale, and Princeton, who have very apparent ability. That ability of...