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...fool. If this is so, and Dr. Laird's observations are accurate, the intrepid spirit who dares to undergo four gruelling years of college life is taking an impressive gamble with the gods of chance. When he emerges from the strain of intellectual competition, or as one critic would prefer, the pernicious influences of a vapid university atmosphere, he may find himself a second Shakespeare, a second Dante, a second Leonardo; of his family may discover to their horror that all he can remember of his past life is a somewhat garbled version of "Mr.--is requested to call...
...somehow prefer the youthful Solomon of the 'Song of Songs' to the Solomon who wrote the crochety old proverbs when the shadows of his life were lengthening...
...esteem you highly, Dr. Eliot, but somehow I prefer your disapproval of prohibition as expressed at the age of 63 rather than your approval of it expressed...
Roared "the Tiger": "... I prefer my Vendée. I work. I rise before dawn and write. I cultivate my garden...
...trolley car, or-as their operators prefer to call it-the "electric railway industry," is only 36 years old. Not until May 4, 1888, did the first commercially successful overhead trolley car appear in this country and spell the extinction of the older, slower and smaller 'horse car ' systems. To Richmond, Virginia, belongs the honor of witnessing on that date the beginning of the electrically-operated street railways. From that experimental beginning, the industry grew until at present it represents about $6,000,000,000 of invested capital, an annual income of about...