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...endogenous, and education is his unfolding," said Emerson. If proof were needed that education is not the same thing as college training per se, the Times has given it in an imposing enumeration of untutored genius. Who will deny that these are the names of educated men? Yet their college degrees are all honorary, bestowed in recognition of achievement. Without the opportunities of college training, they rose to heights the average college graduate never ascends. The simple truth is that college cannot give a man genius, seriousness of mind and determination of purpose. A man must bring these...
...banquet given in his honor at Córdoba, King Alfonso XIII, referred to the defamation campaign which Señor Vicente Blasco Ibanez has been waging against...
...bright summer morn, a crowd collected at the railway station of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. Upon the platform was the Minister of War, General Justo, surrounded by many Cabinet members, Army officers, other dignitaries, including Señor Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine Ambassador to the U. S. and a delegation from the U. S. Legation...
...Embassy. The reporters rang the doorbell and pounded on the U. S. Embassy door. A sleepy concierge came to find out what was the matter. "We want to see Ambassador Kellogg; he is visiting with Ambassador Herrick," demanded the reporters. "C'est impossible," declared the concierge. "Les Excellences se sont déjà couch...
Religion, like the Arts and Sciences, has to maintain itself upon a strictly economic basis. That means that its debts must be paid, its servants salaried that they may live. To do this, Religion has depended upon charity; for it is not per se a business, least of all a profitable concern in terms of cash...