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The American Scholar

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We should build parks that students from afar

Would choose to starve in, rather than go home …

We must have many Lincoln-hearted men.

—Vachel Lindsay, “On the Building of Springfield,” 1912

When the researchers posed as pedestrians waiting to cross a street, all the drivers in cheap cars respected their right of way, while those in expensive cars drove right on by 46.2 percent of the time, even when they’d made eye contact with the pedestrian waiting to cross. … When [the Berkeley psychologists] left a jar of candy

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