Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invited. There is nothing like having the freedom and the opportunity to express your feelings. Frank discussion is good for the soul, national or individual. The Conference certainly gave these 20 nations, large or small, an opportunity for this. There was disagreement, it is true, but it was much better that it be above board than kept repressed. And our delegation came away with the respect, and I believe the admiration, of most of the Latin delegates. Charles Evans Hughes, a member of the American delegation, laid his cards right on the table at the beginning of the conference...
...fact of the matter probably is that public life in our own times is poorly organized for great adventure and much better organized for regularly. Adventure has made a few successful men in politics, but it has unmade many moves. Men like Curtis picturesque, daring, headlong, vivid come to Washington and are swallowed by the system. Hitherto bold, they cover up, play safe, risk nothing, watch their chances and advance by inches...
...gardens of Versailles, and be it said softly, he has never been enthusiastic for them. Purely incidentally it has occurred to the Vagabond that styles in gardens show a marked relation to history and literature. A chance for a new department possibly? And after that remark the Vagabond had better retire...
...American Opera Company. In the opening scene, for instance. Faust is discovered in his study, a scholar of middle age, a victim of nostalgia, despairing over the futility of the search after knowledge by forfeiting all life's diversions, speculating on whether after all it may not be better to assent to the aphorism, "evil, be though my good...
...situation of education is little better than chaotic, and there is a lack of a coherent system of schools in this country," was the statement made by Professor H. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon...