Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union Committee, however, still favors the idea of reviews, as it believes they constitute a desirable part of the educational system and fill a gap not previously covered by the University. It also feels that reviews help to correlate course material. Supplementing this belief is the knowledge that many unable to afford the prices charged by the tutoring schools would be glad to take advantage of free reviews...
...belief that under this new constitutional practice the President should in every fourth year, insofar as seems reasonable, review the existing state of our national affairs and outline broad future problems, leaving specific recommendations for future legislation to be made by the President about to be inaugurated." Having settled that matter of precedent, Franklin Roosevelt settled down to what appeared to be almost such a workaday enumeration of the problems confronting the Government as Calvin Coolidge used to give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress...
...others such as Chairman Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee-had declared for a constitutional amendment to achieve such aims. But the expression of pleasure on their faces suddenly changed to surprise at Franklin Roosevelt's next words: "During the past year there has been a growing belief that there is little fault to be found with the Constitution of the United States as it stands today. The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental law but an increasingly enlightened view with reference to it. Difficulties have grown out of its interpretation; but rightly considered...
...characters say: ''Although their rights have been curtailed, they are all the same expected to keep isolated, to live as though they had no human passions, desires, feelings. Much has been taken from them but little has been given them in return, hardly even the belief in their superiority...
...salvation of athletic idealism from the serious threats that menace it today". Seven representatives of the most renowned educational institutions in the East should have been able to reach a basis for mutual agreement on this subject. But they merely returned with more of the same hypocritical assertions of "belief" that have served to veil but not conceal the real issue in the last three years...