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...flurry left President Nash unmoved. Indeed he remarked publicly some time ago that in his opinion the people who were fixing the value of Nash stock on the Stock Exchange had put the price above the value. This was not cynicism or bad business; it was simply the viewpoint of a producer. Until 1891 he was a farmer and he knows that it takes time to grow a good crop. After that he became a carriage trimmer and later began to apply his crop-growing abilities to motor firms. By 1910 he was President of the Buick Motor...
...Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde is probably the least played of all the important dramatists* of the '90s. It is believed by shrewd financiers of the theatre that epigrams will not keep. These men are right, as usual, from a financial viewpoint. It is doubtful whether the engaging and lancelike humors of this piece will interest a great many people for a protracted period. On the other hand, the production seems one of the very few this season that the true lover of the theatre cannot afford to miss...
...faculty has, however, a saner appreciation of the question from a Harvard viewpoint since they have, for the most part, been members of the community for some time That they too see in moderation the best policy rather establishes the fact that those who are longest possessed of Harvard atmosphere find in the present state of things little to be commended...
...from the floor of this House much criticism of a distinguished gentleman from my home state, Mr. Edward House. I hold no brief for Mr. House; I am not authorized to speak for him in any particular, but because of such criticism I want to give you a different viewpoint from that which you have had concerning this gentleman...
...Garrett's Ouroboros has the merits of a central idea, an impersonal viewpoint, a cool wit. He traces the growth of machinery from Adam's pastoral day to our pasteurized one, when it has become an essential of our existence, an "extension" of human nature with which humanity will have to harmonize itself or starve...