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...morale of a school has fallen to such a point that its directors are no longer disturbed by the necessarily poor showing of its graduates in college examinations, it is hardly probable that they will be aroused to reformatory efforts by the possibility of winning an appropriately designed metal shield. The prestige accompanying the award will of course be great, but no greater than it has been in past years with or without the physical emblem of high scholarship...
...insist that the best friends of the Constitution are those who dared to voice their protest when that instrument, ordained to give perpetuity to the immortal declaration 'conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,' is invoked as a shield for corrupt and law less wealth and for the oppression of the liberties of the people in the exercise of their inalienable rights...
...might against right, of physical prowess against spiritual courage. Humanly speaking, it was folly for David to challenge Goliath. But, with God's blessing, the staff, the scrip, the stone and sling of the shepherd boy, symbolic of spiritual power, prevailed signally over the sword, the spear and the shield of the giant warrior, typical of brute force...
...Manhattan, Miss Marina Hoffman finished an heroic group, two figures, representing England and the U. S., to adorn the facade of Bush House* in London. The statues, when erected in stone, will be twelve feet high. Each figure rests his arms on a shield bearing the coat-of-arms of his country. England's attitude is one of authority and experience, America's is that of a young athlete, keen, ready...
Last week the shields were less than 500 ft. apart. In spite of their huge weight, the distance they have been propelled, and the many difficulties, Chief Engineer Clifford Holland and his staff were confident that the calculations will not be wrong by more than an inch. Each shield weighs 400 tons. The one from New Jersey has taken a snake-like course through mud, the one from Manhattan has had to eat through stone. They move in shoves of 2 1/2 ft.; and after each shove, "sand hogs" probe for obstructions with long iron bars. Manhattan skyscrapers are used...