Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time to abandon all hope in the schools and colleges. The latter in particular have made much progress of late years. Rather than try to extend the scope of education, the advocates of liberalism would find it more worth their time to encourage its growth in the existing institutions...
...next league debate the University speakers will meet the representatives from the University of Pennsylvania on February 20 at Philadelphia. The question was to have been "Resolved, That all, nations should abandon extraterritoriality in China", but a recent decision of the two universities has prompted a change in the subject which will be announced later. On February 25 the University orators will face the Williams debaters in Cambridge. The subject is still undecided...
...searchlight of critics, the public has been self-consciously seeking knowledge, but it is impossible to expect it to consume all the indigestible efforts that now bury bookshop counters. The burden of a profitable business, they must go down in red ink on the ledgers of men who abandon discrimination because they fear to reject a work that might parallel the phenomenum by Will Durant. And the better authors, in a struggle to keep their heads above water in a sea of competitors, must produce more often if not as well, to hold public interest...
...reason why Harvard athletic authorities have chosen to abandon the non-scouting system is not, as one might suppose from a perusal of the Yale News' editorial on the subject, because they were naturally distrustful of the plan. Certainly preconceived antipathies might have been entertained by Harvard, but in entering into a non-scouting agreement those antipathies were laid aside; the system was given a fair trial--a trial based on the actual merits of the plan, not on prejudices either for or against its success. The result has been that as far as Harvard is concerned, non-scouting...
...universally expresses admiration of the "cave man" while at the same time upholding that great American slogan, "It's off, because it's out," the problem is an alarming one. The question as to whether the tea-sipping students of Radcliffe, Sargent, and Miss Leslie's should abandon, as they threaten to do, the debated territory of the fashionable tea shoppe to their enemies, the hairy-legged racquetmen, offers possibilities of stone throwing. The female crusader against legs laments a lack of modesty; and the male defendant retorts that "people who wear sheer hose should not wear short dresses...