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What President Roosevelt called "the most American thing in America" began to happen again. What Philosopher James called "the best fruits of what mankind has striven for under the name of civilization for centuries" ripened once more and were culled by glad thousands...
...Please convey to your associates of the Harvard model national Democratic convention my very genuine appreciation of the honor done me. It is a distinction which I shall always cherish and coming without solicitation is much to be preferred to an honor striven for in a real convention...
Augustus St. Gaudens had just completed his famous memorial statue of Farragut, now standing in Madison Square, New York, when his son, Homer, was born at Roxbury, Mass. This was in 1881, just when the great sculptor was achieving the recognition and success for which he had striven. The son was the idol of his father, posing as early as the age of 17 months for a bronze plaque. Here we find one of the earliest essays of the father in low relief, but it has all the characteristics of a masterpiece. The soft lines and curves of the baby...
...past few years. The observations which he has made, and the information which he has gleaned, obviously from Soviet quarters, form the material for the book. Dr. Nansen has pictured, admittedly superficially, present-day Russia, her trade, financial, agricultural, industrial and educational situation. In each case he has striven to be fair to everyone. He has shown considerable sympathy with the Bolsheviki in their troubles, but he has not been blind to the viewpoints of outside persons.. Briefly he tells of the utter disintegration of finance, industry, commerce,, education, agriculture. He brings out, among other things, the fact that...
Against this pronunciamento Mussolini has striven in vain, and now rumors have been quieted by the news that there is, after all, to be no change in Vatican-Quirinal relations, and that Pope Pius I apparently feels that the Holy, Roman and Apostolic Church is an institution of greater permanency than the latest condottore who has laid strong hands on the Eternal City...