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...Said Dr. Van Dyke further: Some of these works, on the grounds of style, I attribute to Rembrandt pupils. ... In many uther cases I cannot say whose they are. Some of these etchings and drawings which have been wrongly attributed to Rembrandt are very fine works. Some are worthless... . He had 72 pupils. What has become of their work? Nearly all of it has been attributed to Rembrandt. . . . About 50 years ago the great modern appreciation of Rembrandt began and with it came the tendency to attribute to Rembrandt personally all works of his school. ... It is not my purpose...
...week before, a busy little Bucknell team had trounced Penn State; Penn had melted the famed "Iron Men"* from brown. There could be little doubt of a victory for Penn, which was odd because Hake, Monk, Olexy, the Brothers Scull, Wascolonis, etc. of Penn were worthless before Delph, Pannaccion, Roepke, Hamas, etc. of Penn State. Score...
Those bonds are now practically worthless. The engineers had made a mistake in their coal soundings at Shamokin; receivers administer Shipman Coal affairs...
...William W. Ryan, janitor of a printing plant, self-styled "Organizer and President of the World League of Cities," had sent invitations, not only to cities in Russia, but to hundreds of cities in the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, China, Japan, India. All of these invitations were worthless...
...suggest. If, by listing lectures on outer events which to him seem unusually insinuative and by an occasional comment on the lecturer's topic, he can incite any intellectual curiosity in his reader, his ambitions will have been fulfilled. The course meetings which he notes may prove worthless to the visitor as far as the accumulation of any concrete knowledge; taken alone they may be hopelessly complex or fruitlessly general. Should they arouse inquisitiveness concerning the particular subject under discussion, however, or any tangential treatment value may be measured only with reference to futurities...