Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such declarations through all wars since. It does not jibe somehow with your statement. Once I heard someone introduce Smedley Butler's father, the Congressman, as a Quaker, and he hastily denied it, saying, "No, no, no, I'm no Quaker I" In view of his recent action he was quite right. To be born in a Quaker county like Chester County, Pa., does not make one a Quaker any more than a mouse born in a stable is for that reason a horse. ... Smedley Butler might have been, may even become a sturdy Quaker...
Whether fear of being crushed before the ever-increasing tide of spring automobilists or a desire to stand above the rest of Cambridge society moved the polizei to this action will never be discovered; the fact remains that the Blue at present stands above the Crimson...
...taken either for distribution or as free electives, or too great concentration in one field in the student's choice of his free electives. The best safeguard against this danger lies in having as tutors men who are of sufficiently broad views and interests to prevent undue specialization: but action by the Faculty last year preventing a man below Group IV of the Rank List from becoming, except in an unusual case, a candidate for distinction was a step towards this end. This rule which did not come into effect until this fall, serves to emphasize in the mind...
...action of the Jersey City Rotary Club opens a new vista of activity in the field of international study. Is it not quite possible that the dozens of other business men's organization in the United States should follow their lead? What then becomes of Main Street, Mr. Babbitt, and even Sinclair Lewis. With all its flummery and posing the joining spirit of contemporary America must have in it a deeper and more fundamental element. Dartmouth debaters travel New Hampshire to clash before business men's clubs on the International Debt Settlement. Rotary sends students for study in Europe...
...narrow religeous and patriotic tenets which make possible such action are expressions of that reactionary and Czaristic spirit which is the worst enemy of modern American education. It regards the school and the college alike as primarily the strongholds of traditional opinion. He hides under the mask of 'good citizenship". He makes impossible any other educational system than that which trains the students in acceptance, a prettier way of saying that it straight-jackets the intelligence. What then becomes of the Tutorial System, of the Honors course, of Dr. Meiklejohn's college, all of which are in fundamental opposition...