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...these young men, and most of them know it. Like young plants, they are building up their world from within and getting themselves adjusted to it just now, they are browsing about, picking up a precious bit of truth here in a lecture, there in a book, or yonder among their fellows. Our job is to give them a shock now and then and stimulate the endogenous development that each one must supervise for himself. That is all we can do, and when we try to do more, we hinder the process...
...from yonder ivy-mantled tower...
...silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely Puncheon's mound, the two enter the ancient graveyard and stay there reading the epitaphs...
...House is honored today by having one of the big men of the country in attendance," declared Representative Thomas L. Blanton, provocative son of Abilene, Tex. The House listened attentively. "I refer," pursued the Congressman eloquently, "to Mr. Will Rogers, who is seated in yonder gallery." Congressional eyes were raised in unison. There was a hushed silence. Mr. Rogers, who was without his lariat, blushed furiously. Then a storm of applause burst from the legislators. Mr. Rogers bowed modestly...
...Edmund Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament, but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sat a 'Fourth Estate' more important far than they all."? Heroes and Hero Worship (Carlyle...