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After receiving the Stanford estate, Stanford University will have an income three times as great as that of Harvard, the richest American University at present...
American writers, said the speaker, have worked the richest field in the short story. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page and Mr. Joel Chandler Harris are well known southerners, and Mr. Harding Davis has made a national reputation for himself which is perhaps a little in excess of his merits. "Gallegher" is on the whole his best achievement, and his early stories are in general his best. Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are in Mr. Copeland's opinion at the top of American writers of the short story. Miss Wilkins is undoubtedly the more dramatic of the two, but equally without doubt...
City government in the United States presents a new battle ground for good government. Cities afford the greatest opportunities and richest harvests to spoils workers. Examples of this are the Tweed and Tammany rings in New York. Dr. Parkhurst has proved that the police, the body which ought to protest, was in direct league with vice. So powerful was the influence of the ring that laws were passed to enable the police to levy blackmail. Theodore Roosevelt is now enforcing these laws...
Even though one has no more laudable motive for studying the Bible, than that of personal culture, one can not afford to miss the rare training, which such study is bound to afford. Froude once said, "The Bible, thoroughly known, is a literature of itself, the rarest and richest in all departments of thought and imagery, which exists." When such a scholar has expressed such a decided conviction on the subject, has any man the right to call himself well educated, until he has at least some adequate knowledge of such a book...
...stand to the University as its last and, we trust, its richest fruit. Here you have dreamed dreams and seen visions. For the most glorious of those dreams and the loveliest of these visions you will be held responsible. If you should fail of your highest purposes in life, you will not be able to fall back upon the excuse that the highest ideals have not been given, for they are yours now. What you will do with them remains for you to answer...