Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have their roots in economic dissatisfaction. Klanism is simply a sad commentary on the condition of education and religion in the United States. It is possible, of course, that the Klan may some day decide to support something reasonable like the rights of the middle class. No such comparatively broad-minded decision can be hoped for, however, until a few men of intellect have supplanted the midnight masqueraders as members. But then with men of intellect in its ranks the Klan will be no longer the Klan...
...thoroughly approve of the necessity of getting away to a certain extent from the mere study of grammar in preparatory and high schools with a view to attaining the ultimate and finest reward that the study of the classics has to offer, a broad and profound culture, the greater rewards...
...that we should never have majority rule. The idea that three parties should be firing at each other in a triangular duel, and that Government could thus effectively be carried on, was founded on a hopeless fallacy. . . . We must escape from that system and reestablish in its place some broad, solid and substantial foundation by which the King's Government can be carried on, not for a session, but for a full Parliament...
...have a look at the "spindle-legged" and "hollow-chested" American youth who at this moment adorns the garages and boulevards of Cambridge because he prefers the broad highway to the gridiron, or diamond. It is easy to see that the automobile owners at Harvard come, as a rule, from the wealthier prep school element, since high school men being more studious have less time for joy riding. It is in the prep schools that athletics are compulsory and it is from there that most of Harvard's great athletes come. You will find, therefore, that the prep school...
...other company, which will broad cast the games this year for the first time is the Boston Herald-Traveller, with a station in Springfield. A private wire between here and Springfield has been provided for and over this the reports will be sent to Springfield to the Westing-house Electric Company. This company broadcasts for the Herald-Traveller from station...