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The facts about study in American universities justify to some extent the disrespect felt for certain types of research. But nothing could be more dishonest intellectually or more fatal to the whole spirit of university work than to confuse pedantic and largely fruitless study with scholarship at its best. That...
Seven Tammany votes on the Board lined up automatically for the Brown bid. But Mayor McKee mustered nine against its printing monopoly and the contract went to Burland. Savings: $49,760.
Unannounced Mayor McKee dropped in on the $19,000,000 Bronx Terminal Market. He found in this huge municipal building two grocers and two vegetable dealers paying a total rent of $26,000 per year. Not more than ten city employes were visibly at work. Back at City Hall he...
These activities tended to depress the political stock of Citizen Walker. Whether Tammany would put him up for reelection or not remained as unsettled as ever. Mayor McKee was off to such a good start that many a wiseacre was sure that "Jimmy" Walker would never be able to regain...
Rubens soon proved his usefulness to the Cuban exiles as a lawyer and was made General Counsel and utility man to the "Cuban Junta." In 1895 Gómez and Marí'i landed in Cuba for the final struggle. Martí was soon killed in a skirmish, but G...