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...university is to be a factory, and those gentlemen and scholars who brought libraries to the colonies in America would probably groan at the word, then pure science will develop better soap and shoes and sealing wax, and call the job complete. But if the university is to be something even higher than business could imagine something finer than business could really effect, then pure science will continue to function as an organism of honest research into the whys and wherefores of this odd, but necessary universe...
...beginning. Mr. Gladstone was the only other man who could make so many Scotsmen take politics as if it were the Highland Fling. Once when Lord Rosebery was firing an Edinburgh audience to the delirium point, an old man in the hall shouted out: 'I dinna hear a word he says, but it's grand, it's grand...
Debt Funding Theory. M. Lamoureux made public last week a theory which he has evolved concerning French debts to the U. S. and Britain. In a word he declared that most of the money borrowed by France from the U. S. was spent in the U. S. on munitions, etc., and that the U. S. Government collected in taxes from the munition makers "about 46% of the sums spent by France." Therefore, according to M. Lamoureux, France has already "paid" almost half of her debt to the U. S. and a still larger percentage of her debt to Britain...
There are some personalities conjoined to such abilities that critics damn themselves for the faintness of their praise and strangle their vocabularies in ecstatic anguish at the failure of their word-slaves to express the frenzy of their passion...
...announcement stated: "The new corporation will purchase, own, sell, and underwrite securities of concerns engaged in the food trade. Its income will be derived from dividends of stocks owned, from profits on purchase and sale of securities, and from underwriting and other banking activities." In a word, the type of control already applied to public utilities, oil and bread is now to be experimented with in the largest industry in the country, the industry that feeds the people...