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...against time is no doubt good for the soul. Especially salubrious is the discipline following failure to comply. A man in good standing at the beginning of his third year might congratulate himself too enthusiastically. If he faces probation for other causes he vails his stomach--and his neighbors prosper. Nor can there be forgotten the opportunities for intercourse with the faculty gained by a student who takes examination after examination. The instructors are friendly, of course, the student eager for learning. Both appear to their best advantage, cordial, disinterested, and sharing an admiration for the language in question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS MODERN LANGUAGE QUESTION | 3/14/1924 | See Source »

...Permanent Court of International Justice. Such public action, however, supplemented as it is by private enterprise, is too limited to be adequate as our full share in the task of making this world one in which it is possible for our nation and other nations to live and prosper. For nothing is more certain than that the peace and prosperity of the United States are directly dependent upon the prosperity and peace of the world. Such action, public and private, is important chiefly as a sign that the people of the United States recognize this truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Larger Union | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

...Russian producer Danchenko announced that he will " modernize " Carmen. That is, he will retain the present musical form as much as possible, but will change the libretto to make it more realistic and conform it as far as possible to the original novel, Carmen, by Prosper M´erim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modernizing Carmen | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

...exaggeration of the fact. Men will continue to be forced to marry, or women not to marry, if they are to win their inheritance. Nevada will continue to have as many Rhodes Scholars as New York. Cat-sanitariums and homes for eeble-minded poll-parrots will continue to prosper, while "humanitarian" institutions in the literal sense of the word are suffering from want of funds. This is a part of the heritage of Past to Present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERITAGE | 1/15/1923 | See Source »

...average moral and intellectual quality is below that of the white man, because he has not had as good a chance to develop what is in him as have the other immigrants, because there is an element in the southern states that does not want the negro to prosper, and because the negroes in the North live in islands of population in the large cities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYS THAT LYNCHING MUST BE SUPPRESSED | 10/30/1922 | See Source »

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