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...hope that by careful work our colleges might develop some such training in literary skill as is developed in musical conservatories. Experiment proved that this, at least to my mind, was impracticable. The only way to learn to write so that anyone will read it to write 'nulla dies sine linea' On the whole, the true school of literary production for the past century has been journalism. In the reporter's work there is reality unattainable academically. Taste is another matter and taste is the product of training. But after all nothing amounts to anything without a spark of what...
...activity of the Harvard Union, debating will possess a different status. Under the surveillance of a well-run organization, it; will presumably receive the regular periodical attention which is the sine quinine of its success...
Last year the lacrosse team was under the direction of Coach Lydecker for the first time The results of the new regime were very satisfactory sine the team lost only to the exceptionally strong Yale and Syracuse teams...
...Gloomy Gus." The gentleman was, of course, Mr. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, chubby, rotund, 62, late U. S. Ambassador to Germany, now U. S. Ambassador to Britain, sine? birth destined to his present industrial mogulship: Chairman of the Board of the enormous Corning Glass Works, which the Houghtons of Corning, N. Y., have controlled for three generations...
...other large packers, lay under cloud in the public mind. True, they had corralled livestock, slaughtering and marketing control into few hands, had almost ruled the meat business of this country. Then came the War, during which the quintessence of centralized control over every commodity was the sine qua non of victory, and the U. S. Army Quartermaster Corps found its rationing problems simplified. General Knisgern, Zone Supply Officer, stationed at Chicago, was especially pleased, placed his contracts intelligently, cautiously. He wanted a steady supply of food for the armies, wanted high quality (had his own corps of inspectors...