Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...experienced men become retailers, and each year thousands of these retailers fail. The business of store-keeping is so commonplace that people do not hesitate to embark in it and they are highly surprised if they fail. "To sell a pound of nails or a package of coffee," says Mr. Copeland, "appears so simple that the problems of buying, selling, stock-handling, accounting and managing are over-looked. The general public, on its side, shows its ignorance of these problems by talking lightly of middleman elimination. Although twenty to thirty-five percent. of the price paid by the consumer does...
...colleges can ever hope to attain in the United States. Through whatever spectacles one views English history from the thirteenth century onward, he cannot help but perceive the influence of the universities on the life of the country. I need not elaborate the point. It is sufficient to say that, like the best of everything else in English life, the universities have been saved for 'the best...
...say the dean could more effectively attack athletics by praising them, by plainly recognizing that the natural interest of undergraduates in their bodies is fostered by a system superior to that of the classroom in its attempts to train their minds. Surely athletics must be reduced to a position of less importance in our colleges; there is no end which we desire more. But this end will not be accomplished by mere regulative and hostile legislation on the part of our faculties. Such regulation usually serves only to widen the gap between students and teachers and to give the undergraduates...
...need to sermonize on the value of debating to the individual. It is perfectly obvious that a man's ability to kick a football or drive out base hits will be less of an asset to him in after life than the ability to stand on his feet and say something in a clear, convincing manner. The man who goes out for the debating team--and goes out hard, making a study of the question and learning to state his views on it forcefully, will have done as much for himself as the man who tugs an oar all season...
...majority." All revolutions and all reforms must be started by a minority. The indifference of many people and the active opposition of others towards all proposed reforms must be taken as a matter of course. All reforms are at first regarded with disfavor by the majority. Finally, I would say that the "Revolutionists," in common with the upholders of the present system, desire fellowship and sociability at the meetings, but we believe that the serving of beer is an artificial and unnecessary way in which to secure conditions of congeniality. L. BRENTANO...