Word: belonged
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Most people, and perhaps in a peculiar degree the American people, tend in the busy life of the world to save themselves from strenuous thought by taking refuge in the opinions of their associates, of the men in like occupations, of the party or group to which they belong. This saves some of them, indeed, from eccentricity, and from irrational extremes; but it does not absolve men from responsibility for the correctness of their opinions, or save the nation from the consequences of their errors. The fact that others make the same mistake is no excuse. Yet people...
...questions asked by Professor Channing in his American History Course was phrased: "'Today men and women belong to society and not to themselves'. Is this true? Is it desirable?" Whether it is desirable or not, there are those who think it should be. Witness the following, the concluding paragraph of an editorial published in the Michigan Daily...
...urban universities and college which has been going on the world over. It is significant that the next largest American university in numbers is also situated in this city--New York University. Next comes Chicago University. And if we speak in terms of colleges, second and third place belong to our won municipal institutions--the College of the city of New York with nearly 15,000 students and Hunter College with more than 11,000 students. It has become a commonplace to speak of the drift from the country into the cities as indicating the close of the epoch...
...based. In his recent annual report President Lowell urged that "it would be better if those who have spent one year in colleges with less advanced instruction were here treated as Freshmen and the rest, so far as possible, assigned at once to the class where they most nearly belong...
...Under the law of 1918," he declared, "it was made a deportable offense to belong to any society which discussed or advocated the overthrow of the government by force or violence" and the Department of Labor was commissioned to carry...