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America in particular has become the stronghold of specialization. The "family doctor" of a generation ago has become a syndicate, splitting up, and classifying every human ailment into as many divisions as the famous butchering industry of the "Principles of Economics." The law firms of the forties where two partners would "stump" the circuit, taking up each case as it came to them, one for the plaintiff and the other for the defendant, have given way to elaborately organized systems, drawing such fine distinctions that the vague general head of Law is lost in the vast number of sub-headings...
...first setting is a large room, whose walls are of rough, heavy plaster; the next is the stronghold of a smuggler band; and the last an ancient, tropical garden. The color scheme of the sets becomes more striking, until the garden furnishes a brilliant climax in bright orange and violet. Restrained realism is the purpose throughout...
Harvard, There is the Oxford of America, a university in every sense of the word, undoubtedly the best and foremost stronghold of real education and culture in our country. Unfortunately I was brought up in a part of the land where Harvard is usually spoken of in (shall I be conservative and say) neutral terms. Therefore my mind has a vague, ghostlike, untrue conception of a creature stamped "Harvard man" I fully realize how absurd my idea is, yet an idea is an idea and when it is stamped on the brain, well, it is bound to cling more...
With the holshevic tendencies of the Dakotas and Wisconsin well known, the red agitators are bending every effort to win Illinois and Minnesota, which would give them an unbroken stronghold through the center of the middle-west. Although Chicago's mayor is not admittedly pro-Bolshevic, but only pro-Thompson, many of his utterances, calculated to win votes, have sown broadcast the seed of labor dissension...
Among the public institutions that have been receiving the benefit of the critical spirit of this decade is the college. Radical organs fill their editorial pages with denunciations of "this stronghold of capitalism" and insist that American educators have given their freedom in exchange for pitiful salaries and are but "the tools of the ruling class." On the other hand, reactionaries are as loud in their accusations that the colleges are the strongholds of menacing economic theories and are "full of parlor-bolshevists...