Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restricted activities of the national education service, which Congress could be-brought to authorize, no inherent virtue rests in the departmental form of organization. Apparently the present Bureau can accomplish with less expensive fanfare but equal efficiency, the educational work of the national government...
...been unsatisfactory. The connection between these two facts cannot be blinked. The plan of student waiters will not justly be open to condemnation until a sincere effort has been made to establish fair and attractive conditions of employment. The recommendations of the Student Council committee seem admirably calculated to accomplish this purpose...
...President. What has he ever done to merit such applause?: True, he may be a very intelligent, magnetic and democratic young man, and a good sport. The same is true of thousands of young Americans and young men of all other civilized nations, but they have to accomplish something before they are lionized in the press and on the screen. What has the Prince done? Is it possible that we Americans are degenerating into royalty-loving snobs? Shades of Washington, Paine, Jefferson and Franklin, forgive...
Congress can perhaps accomplish a great deal if it will run to ground plans for Federal storage of surplus grain to cover deficiency in an ensuing year, and plans also for cheap and efficient marketing. These subjects appear the most tangible of all referred to in the many projects broached. And if in addition to incisive planning of this nature, Congress can rise to the occasion and provide impartial and enduring machinery such as the Federal Reserve System owns, it will have handled an economic problem with political wisdom...
...more than the restraint necessary for ht realization of a creative power, sufficient to overcome the mediocrity or contemporary art. "Man is a thinking being"--college cramp is the coercive restraint of university skepticism upon the creative mind. Does he weather it he is all the better able to accomplish his end--does he fail, he would probably fail anyway. And merely another victim is offered to the gods of learning--or a bonding house on Wall Street...