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...bill, of any sort acceptable to Parliament, which would produce the revenues indispensable to the state (TIME, March 8 et ante.) As the week closed, an ominous prophecy flew about Paris: "Eh bien! Now we shall have a Dictator or a Soviet or some wizard-demagog like M. Caillaux. Tant pis! So much the worse...
...souvenir comme une heure des plus agreables de ma vie puis qu'elle m'aura permis de revoir parmi vous certains de mes anciens eleves de Paris, puis de faire connaissance avec les diplomes de l'ecole, enfin de me trouver aumilieu de cette jeunesse que j'aime tant et a laquelle je suis toujours tres devoue. Je n'aurai garde dans ma reconnaissance d'oublier M. le President, M. le Doyen, aussi que mes chers collegues, les professeurs de Harvard, et aussi mes confreres architects d'avoir repondu a votre aimable invitation; j'y vois de leur part...
During the summer the Peabody Museum has received several very impor tant additions to its collections, especially to the collections of pottery. One of the largest of these groups is the Gordon collection of pottery from the banks of the Ulua River in Honduras. This comprises broken bits of colored pottery, stone idols and terra cotta whistles in the shape of animals, all of which were found in the banks of the Ulua River at a depth varying from four to forty feet...
...place to lounge in, and all that sort of thing. The great objection to it is that all who have the entree are tempted to become professional loungers, - a class of people, as I have often told you, who are not appreciated upon this side of the Atlantic. Tant pis pour nous...
...great, essential attainment which, with us, secures to a man a scholarship, is - indigence. If he has ability, tant mieux; but no supply of the latter rather important attribute qualifies him for winning a University benefice, save in one or two instances, while poorer men are in many ways encouraged to excel in all departments. The results are, first, that the absence of all men not dependent on college aid from the contest lowers the standard of excellence in College; and, second, that society is overstocked with unambitious gentlemen of leisure, unable to pursue professional studies, after graduating, with credit...