Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps no Yale faculty member is so well known at Harvard as Dean Brown, and certainly none so universally honored and beloved. But respect for him cannot blind one to the novelty of this defense of an antiquated system. Does Dean Brown mean to assert that the first business of a college is to produce preachers? If he does, the CRIMSON can only say that it disagrees with him. And aside from this implication, is it not probable that incipient persons deliberately choose a college where compulsory religion is the fashion? If so, compulsion itself hardly seems the cause...
...appointed by the Bishop, the health officer and the President of the Medical Association of each community, to certify to the physical and mental health of all persons before their marriage by the Church. He said that such action would reduce the number of divorces, of children born blind, of morons, of criminals...
Colleges erect immense new buildings, install new systems, set enrolment limits in the thousands--in short, strain every resource to accommodate more thousands. To what end? Their Gargantuan efforts have certainly not blessed the world with a new Republic of wisdom and virtue. No one but a blind optimist would pretend so. What the mammoth machine has done is to make society over by creating a new class which has given the characteristic color to American life: a complacent, materialistic, pleasure-seeking class of half-educated men and women...
...pugnacious European powers into some kind of agreement, dark prophets arose seeing a more sinister implication in the conference. True enough, says one of the Boston Transcript's foreign correspondents, that Germany and France are at least apparently in closer accord; but the significance of this surface miracle would blind no one to the fact that this closer cementing of European powers has been accomplished to the accompaniment of a feeling among the assembled diplomats that "We'll show America now." Pan-Europe, as this writer calls the new tendency, may be only his personal pipe-dream; if there...
...Blind Pigger." "When he handed it to the narrow-minded gang I bet you a fin he meant the damn Prohibitionists. I wonder if he takes a drink once in a while...