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...brave way to go out for a revolutionist, but there is no other way out and I can stand it no longer." He then shot himself through the heart...
Exile Leo Davidovich Bronstem thinks the part he has played in Russia's affairs an honest, able, ill-requited one; thinks the rest of Russia is now out of step. But he is philosophical, quotes Revolutionist Pierre Joseph Proudhon's (1809-65) words from prison: "Destiny-I laugh at it; and as for men, they are too ignorant, too enslaved for me to feel annoyed at them...
Sympathetic with the revolutionists but not an active revolutionist himself, Author Gorki has written not propaganda but a chronicle of the Russian intellectuals. The scene is laid in Russia of some 30 years back; the story ends at the time of the late Tsar's coronation. Hero Clim Samghin is a pale, near-sighted youth, long on brains, short on emotions, whose inamorata says to him: "You're slippery. . . . And you have no words which are dear to you." Clim is a precocious but unattractive child, becomes a clever but unattractive young man. He goes to the university...
...Francis Pendleton Gaines, who has been chief executive of Wake Forest (N. C.) College for the last three years. President Gaines was likewise getting used to W. & L. and its 181-year traditions. Not far from his new house lie the bones of Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee, Princetonian, Revolutionist, and his heroic son Robert E. Lee (W. & L.'s eighth president), and his grandson George Washington Custis Lee (W. & L.'s ninth president...
...Ford is essentially a revolutionist an innovator and pioneer. Nothing which seems susceptible of improvement is sacred to him merely because long usage and empty tradition sanction it. It is not improbable that he will try to work out a new educational scheme in the same spirit in which he improved the method of making glass, of assembling automobiles, of bringing up to date that specialization which Adam Smith outlined in "The Wealth of Nations" a century and a half ago. But in the new field he will not have so much liberty of action as in a room filled...