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...figure,--concerning whom much red ink has already been spilt,--has appeared to carry out Dante's dream. Perhaps it is a further waste of ink to say more of this Benito Mussolini. But he is a figure who challenges comparison; one who has not proved a short-lived upstart, nor yet an overbearing Napoleon, seeking to conquer Europe; but one whose rule has been characterized by sanity and vigor. Recently he has given additional proof of his many-sided genius, by active interest in a movement to improve the moral standard of Italian literature, and again by a proclamation...
Small wonder that the Ministry of Agriculture is alarmed. Here is a peasant aristocrat, overturing at one blow all pretensions of such upstart houses as Bourbons, Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Plantagenets to antiquity. Renan's famous remark that if the rights of ownership were religiously observed, Alsace-Lorraine would belong to the aboriginal apes, is nearly true to a lesser degree in this French farmer with his nine hundred year old ancestry. As far as, claims to aristocracy are concerned the line of this peasant proprietor going back over three hundred years before the rhyme...
...past of the Middle Ages, when the upstart poet Dante Alighieri began to write serious verse in the "vulgar tongue", and his work was accepted by scholastic Europe, a new precedent was established. It took six centuries for that precedent to make its influence dominant, and not until a few years ago, when the rule requiring a reading knowledge of Latin for entrance to college was repealed, was its full meaning apparent. Even now to most minds a liberal education, without a knowledge of Latin, is like the house built upon sand,--without a solid foundation...
...steadily growing cloud is rising from the university horizon, a cloud of literature, circulars and pamphlets pouring from the university extensions and upstart correspondence schools of what-not, and threatening to shadow the whole sky. The farmhand can learn to play the piccolo in ten lessons, the mayor can learn public accounting by mail. An education dropped through a slit in the door! The universities are hardly of any use now. A few years and they will be cut off from the light altogether...
Among the many problems confronting the new Administration, that of American shipping ranks high in relative importance. In the days when our nation was considered an upstart, the American vessels found their way in no small proportion into the scattered ports of the world. Since the time of clippers (now but a cherished memory) the "upstart" has developed by territorial expansion, growth of population, industrial and agricultural progress into a first rate nation with no mean commanding power in International affairs. But the carriage of our own products on the high seas has slipped out of our hands, and with...