Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordering and arranging of his education. The fallacy here is obvious. It is equally so, however, in the larger question of whether the student should express his opinion at all, regardless of his academic qualifications to an opinion. For education is something apart from mere erudition, or age, or title. It is a process. And if anyone is qualified to appraise and value that process it is the person most intimately involved...
...weaker is altogether enslaved. So if the League for Industrial Democracy do not believe in Military training in Colleges, on the ground "that all drills are wrong" the sooner the Federal Government, comes to universal Military training of all male school children between 14 and 15 years of age then and not before then will we maintain this Country in the ranks of the leading first powers of all Governments in the World. LOUIS A CUVILLIER, Member New York Legislature, Committee on Military Affairs...
...uselessness of the college degree. More than one successful business man, graduates of the "college of hard knocks" have come out in print to declaim against the college graduate's overweening sense of his own abilities, extravagant habits, and inability to buckle down to work. An age which measures success in financial returns has come to regard four years at college as so much time wasted...
...Will James, another Great Falls boy who worked with "cow and horse outfits" from a tender age, who knew Sculptor Russell well and who has "seen 'em all," meaning the work of cowboy sculptors, is still thoroughly alive. He keeps himself so by writing and illustrating the life he knows best. And after viewing the little casts in Cleveland, Cowboy Artist Will James said slowly: "Today's the first day I've ever seen a real cowboy ridin' a real cowpony...
...strands bought of Benjamin Franklin, who kept worms in Philadelphia, 10¼ yards of cloth were woven for the friend's wife's dress. In 1791 a Mr. Aspinwall persuaded the New York Assembly to promise a bounty of $3 for every 100 mulberry trees reaching the age of three years in good health. Mr. Aspinwall then rushed out on Long Island and planted 800,000 mulberry trees. Another outburst of silk fever occurred in the 1830's. Daniel Webster bought 5,000 trees for his Massachusetts farm. Farm papers told their readers that five acres...