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...personal criticism aimed at Von Hindenburg. The chief point in his speech was the nailing of the Austrian Union plank to the Republican platform. The union of Germany and Austria has for 100 years been the dream of German Imperialists and, with Austria allegedly no longer able to subsist in its present shadow of its former self, the dream has come within an ace of reality. The main obstacle is Czecho-Slovakia, although there is considerable, but not insuperable, opinion against the move in Austria. However, Herr Marx's plank was received with wild joy and termed a courageous...
...athlete, for one, who is worshipped by all the simple-minded undergraduates, will probably do no more than subsist on his athletic reputation all the rest of his life. It will be his excuse for never doing anything great. Indeed, athletic fame, although it is made so much of in the present and occupies the minds of so many persons to the exclusion of everything else, is the least enduring of all fame. A Harvard graduate who distinguishes him-self in public life, writing, teaching, science, or the fine arts will be remembered when all the athletes in his class...
...pain of nakedness and sores. The undergraduate buttoning his overcoat as he hurries to a ten o'clock, may buy a pencil from the old woman crouching on the corner, but the rush of his daily activities blinds him to the starving students of distant Europe who subsist solely on bowls of soup and a tremendous inspiration to learn. Could those poor students march through Harvard Square as classes let out for the lunch hour, could they make their request, no matter how silent, in person, the silver would flow in rivers. It is all a question of realization...
These plangent protests seem ill considered. It is probable that any parents who are so shiftless as to stand by while their children posture and grimace at the command of bull-throated directors would stand by anyway. In such a case the children would inhabit some top floor garret, subsist on cheese and warmed-over coffee. They would have the questionable advantage of consorting with other gutter children. They would grow up into third-rate mechanics? kitchen or gasoline, according...
...diverse occasions men have resorted to the food of the barns and fowl. Not to mention the immortal Nebuchadnezzar, late of Babylon-on-the-Euphrates, at the pinch of fashion or necessity even civilized man has been forced to follow the example of his less epicurean brother, and subsist on other than the staff of life...