Word: apologias
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...Newman-Apologia," Professor Rollin, Emerson...
...President Lowell's term is as completely characteristic of the man as his final report to the Board of Over-seers. Superficially, the document is a terse apologia, a justification of the principles which have guided his policy throughout twenty-three years as Harvard's chief executive. But when he says that "Everything in a University is a means to a distant end," President Lowell is sounding the Keynote not only to his administration but less obviously to this, his final bequest to his successors. With the clear foresight and profound understanding that have distinguished him as a builder...
...problem which has become an integral part of the nation's educational methods. But this much is certain: the lesson of the past two years is unanswerable in its condemnation of the coddling, however well intended, which shapes the attitude of college youth. No matter what involved apologia may be forthcoming from the educator and the parent, it is in them that lies the original fault. They must effect the solution...
...Feminist Apologia...
...china, grow long hair, be super-aesthetical, think of lilies, and have a sense of humor; the last qualification is, of course, paradoxical. Now Gilbert and Sullivan refused to have anything except a sense of humor, and insisted on putting too-too together to get vanity. That is sufficient apologia for "Patience...