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...fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind with orderly knowledge, sending lectures through the air, giving college credits to those who can pass examinations on what they have heard. Last week these seats of airy learning announced their fall curricula...
...peasant representatives, who had threatened not to sow crops or to improve the land unless long leases were made and guaranteed, were flabbergasted, as well they might be. They asked if this new policy did not run counter to the Bolshevik Constitution and received in reply from Stalin: "We wrote the Constitution. We can change it also...
...illusion, replacing these with fact and clarity, in proportion to his industry and mental alertness. This hypothesis would seem to be supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...
...sow the seeds of civil discord, why involve the whole United States in a controversy through these innocent Princetonians at a time when peace is ensured on every hand? Besides, this ill-advised action gives excuse to the more irresponsible portion of the press for a facetious excitement. "Harvard rushes to support baggy pants of old Nassau," headlines the New York Evening Post, a singularly careless statement and one showing that these breeks did need braces if a venerable and sister institution of learning really had to do this. But what proofs are there of this support on Harvard...
Second, the peasants, who were said to be very discontented, can, if they choose, attack the Government by refusing to pay taxes and declining to sow more than enough grain for their own needs. The peasants' discontent is enhanced by their inability to buy from the industrial and commercial population who in turn are thus deprived of a market...