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...real political function of our universities," says Mr. Glenn Frank in an article on the part of state universities in politics in the May Century Magazine, "is the training of a race of unofficial statesmen." While the knowledge of state government and its functions resides in the universities, the power to rule remains in the hands of practical politicians. Mr. Frank proposes "to drive knowledge and power abreast" by bringing learning into closer touch with the current of public life...
...doubt meant nothing to which exception could be taken-he is always a good casuist in defending himself. His latest caricature may cause an explosion or two, but statesmen's hair will hardly turn prematurely grey over night, nor will an epidemic of Anglophobia convulse the U. S. More chuckles than anything can be expected to ruffle the Atlantic. Nonetheless, the danger is latent. Anglo-American friendship rests on the good feelings of each people and that disposition is not shown by the diplomats but by the artists and authors...
...epitaphery published in the press of the U. S. last week would have taken him longer to read. Merely a list of his sitters is a comprehensive British and U. S. Hall of Fame of the last half century. Statesmen like Woodrow Wilson, John Hay; men of affairs like Lord Ribblesdale, Theodore Roosevelt; actors, actresses like Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Ada Rehan, Ellen Terry; authors, educators, beauties, generals, industrialists. Though he announced in 1903 that he would paint no more portraits, he occasionally broke his rule, twice to make it possible for future generations to scrutinize the incomparable countenance...
...digestion of admirals, soda clerks, statesmen...
...this brilliant Jew was chosen from among a host of hereditary British statesmen to represent the Emperor in India, the highest and most responsible administrative position which the Crown has to offer. During his term of office, he has had to contend with Gandhi, Das and other nationalist leaders; and, in spite of being entirely out of sympathy with the Montague-Chelmsford reforms (progressive Indianization and autonomy within the Commonwealth), he has proved himself a patient, able and sagacious pilot in one of the most threatening storms that have beset the ship of India...