Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is a frank statement of the psychology behind the preparatory schoolboy's attitude toward college. Athletics and social success loom over-whelmingly large; the activities of the mind are dwarfed into insignificance. It is the same psychology which remains to a less extent behind the attitude of some undergraduates toward the college. It is the same psychology which makes the mention of the college in the metropolitan newspapers depend in nine cases out of ten upon athletic achievement. Opposed to it is the increasing undergraduate interest in the curriculum, in educational experiments, in the expression of student opinion...
Senator David A. Reed read and grew hot. He arose in the Senate with fire on his tongue: "The poison that taints the pen that writes such editorials as that, demanding the highest and most meticulous virtue from every public man, but knifing defenseless men behind their backs on false charges, where they have no opportunity to reply, is absolutely indefensible...
...attitude may be misunderstood by some articles in the American press. Some of these articles, the President holds, create the impression that American sentiment is divided. This is not the case, he feels. Foreign governments, in his opinion, are frequently misled into supposing that the American people are not behind the Administration's policy... the President feels that it is important that the attitude of the press should make it plain that it supports the government when it is doing what it can to protect American interests at home and abroad...
...passed at the Milwaukee conference. They are half-baked, and they could be nothing else. Undergraduates, with very few exceptions, have not studied long enough to subscribe with intellectual honesty to any such statements as those quoted above. The very haziness of their wording reveals the haziness of thought behind them...
...were more interesting. A little rubber sack. A hypodermic needle. A broken spoon. An envelope of morphin. . . . Drug peddlers, delivering narcotics to prisoners on the island, do not always drop their orders from the bridge. An ordinary postoffice envelope, embossed with the head of George Washington, has a hollow behind the raised stamp...