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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...separate the undergraduate from the graduate, so that the former is apt to be too youthfully irresponsible and the latter too serious and professional: we separate one department of knowledge from another: finally we separate education from life itself, so that when the college course is over we abandon books and serious discussion and lapse into a life of mere business, estranged from the world's intellectual heritage...
...offered a choice between science with its unanimous acceptance of the evolutionary principle, and religion with its necessary appeal to things unseen and unprovable, they are much more likely to abandon religion than to abandon science, and if such a choice is forced on the people, the churches will lose many of their best educated young people, those upon whom they must depend for leadership in the coming years...
...maneuvering in Near Eastern waters. L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who precipitated the break with the Turks at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 28), almost paraphrased Turkish utterances: "I can imagine no action more fatal to the honor of Britain than for us to abandon our rights in Mosul...
From the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate, went a strongly worded letter to Premier Baldwin asserting that "there would be a widespread sense of shame among Englishmen if the Government were to abandon Christians in a British protectorate to the Turks...
When the Student Council decided last year to abandon the competitive method of selecting cheer leaders, it did so because dissatisfaction had been voiced in many quarters against the results obtained under the traditional method of having major sports captains lead cheers. No sooner were the changed plans made known than a new species of complaint arose. Harvard stands were to be edified by all the gymnastic absurdities of jumping jacks said these new critics. From all indications, such fears are without justification. No radical innovations are wanted in Harvard cheering and none are contemplated. The competition begins today...