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...view to which blind yahoos from our hinterland cling, unmindful of what is sighted by our international financial lookouts from the topless towers of New York? The men who know most about money tell us that until the War Debts are out of the way, international trade must plod and stumble. They tell us that the private loans we have made to Europeans are jeopardized by the political loans which remain like a hangover from the War. It seems to me that the people who want the Debts canceled are the same people who pay most of our taxes. Since...
...days they walked, jumped and crawled over the floes to Beechey Point, east of Point Barrow. Eielson's endurance and ingenuity during that accident kept his friends from desperation in the present situation. Unless he and Borland were too injured to move they were daily expected to plod in to some station...
...best, such friendly contacts are few. An ever growing number of undergraduates came to take it as part of the system that they should plod along with the numbing sense of intellectual loneliness in their hearts. To these, as well as to their more fortunate fellows, the infant tutorial system brought new hope. The promise of a new link between the students and the faculty was welcomed with enthusiasm, and though there is still much to be done to perfect the plan, in the main it is justifying itself. The personal element which Dr. Demos emphasizes as so important...
...Young's African smells, sights and sounds are indubitable. He can occasionally strike off action, too. His motivation, however, is vague, unaccountable, spasmodic. His emotions plod in circles. His temper the generous will call wholesome and dignified, others cold and muttonish...
...Henry George and his schemes for abolishing poverty, at General Booth and his plan for helping the poor of England, this enthusiasm compels us to listen to them. But enthusiasm is not the highest test of a man; it is the ability "to walk and not be wearied," to plod along day after day, and not give up the fight. Yet the prophet tells us that we shall have all this, if we will but serve the Lord. The loftiest emotions will come to us, our enthusiasm will not die out and we shall receive the courage "to walk without...