Word: affected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realize that your Christian Christ had a "loop in his nose," and for the same reason that I have one in mine? Your innuendo is powerless to affect the pride of a Jew in the symbol of his race...
...plan of honors in English recently approved by the Faculty," writes Mr. Peterkin, discussing this question in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin seems likely to have interesting developments. Not only will it vitally affect the subjects of undergaduate and graduate study within Harvard itself, but owning to the position which Havard occupies in the scholastic world, it is more than probable that ultimately it will have a profound and far-reaching influence on the whole attitude of American education. It is not the purpose of this article to discuss the plan in detail, but simply the general principle...
Even if the charges against Gladstone are true, what of it? Mr. Gladstone's morals did not affect his statesmanship; they are unimportant, for his statesmanship is what lives today. It is a characteristic of petty minds merely to seize what they can understand; and it seems that hundreds of petty minds must be writing biography today. Those that are afflicted with a conscience argue that their dissections are merely application of the scientific method in the search for truth. But there is truth and Truth. It is truth to say that Walt Whitman had perhaps half a dozen illegitimate...
...need for funds. With very rare exceptions it more than pays its own way. The athletics that particularly need appropriations are those which attract little or no publicity, which are often under, rather than over-emphasized. These are the smaller major, the minor, and the intramural sports which affect the general student body and are therefore to be encouraged since physical training has properly become a recognized part of the college curriculum. Furthermore, general participation in athletics is an excellent antidote to the spectacle complex. The administration of West Virginia Wesleyan, by curtailing funds for athletics, not only goes...
...quite true that many students leave college after one term or one year, never to return. Usually, having found themselves unfit for college work, or uninterested, they enter business, and more often succeed well enough. The loss of four years at college does not seem to affect their business acumen, nor that of many who never attempt to go to college. Perhaps Dr. Ogilby's complaint comes from too high an esteem for a college degree, which may mean very little when secured, as is often, by a minimum of application to carefully chosen, easy courses...