Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there anything else?' Mr. Buchman asked, and the student said: 'No.' Then Mr. Buchman was 'told what he should speak,'* as suspicion became conviction; and leaning forward he said earnestly to the man: 'Isn't your trouble . . . ?' The barrier of pride crumbled away, the man burst into tears, and a new beginning was made on a sure foundation, which transformed the young man into a genuine personal worker and decided finally his problems concerning the ministry...
...startled freshman, almost unwillingly, into the maelstrom. Moreover, other features of the University, commendable in their conception, have led to decidedly undesirable conditions. Among other things, the segregation of freshmen in halls at a remote distance from the Yard, whether or not based on plausible theory, accentuated the natural barrier between...
...despatched to Mexico, Signor Arnaldo Cipolla, an able and "Latin-Catholic conscious" correspondent. He, sensitive, acute, observant, reported, according to a translation made by The Living Age: "Those who say that Mexico is a mere province of the U. S. maintain a palpable absurdity. This country is a powerful barrier which the Latin world has erected against Anglo-Saxon usurpation. . . . There is no resemblance whatsoever between ostensibly Catholic Mexico and any country in Europe or America that is really Catholic. The Roman Church occupies here a place not much different from that which it might hold in a Confucian, Shinto...
...none of these. The horse that swept under the barrier as smoothly as a cob out for its morning canter, five lengths ahead of Lancegay, which ran second, was a horse owned by James Buchanan† (now Lord Woolavington), who sat alone with his cigar at Berkeley Square. It was a horse upon which Robert Bishop,** insurance clerk, held the winning ticket in the Calcutta Sweepstakes worth $600,000.‡ It was a horse for which King George of England politely rose to cheer. It was Coronach...
Many professors, indeed, admit the defliciencies of tests. The difficulty is to find a substitute medium for translating intelligence and industry into the official alphabet. And in determining grades it would seem necessary always to place some reliance upon examinations. But this necessity should by no means prove a barrier to other forms of cultural inquisition...