Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these phases of present German activity that the University must take more of an interest than it has manifested up to the present time. If one will but take the trouble to examine the situation, it will be seen that we have a very real menace and one that cannot be lightly regarded...
...University would certainly introduce a course in energetic competition if such a course could be established with any degree of practicability. The fact it cannot is the cause for businessmen accepting so gladly a man who has worked his way through college. Unfortunately such a man, as a rule, has lost the benefit which the seclusion of college life offers. He would be the first to acknowledge this handicap. There is, however, a golden mean which should be adopted by each undergraduate. His capacity to learn is developed by his academic pursuits; his ability to compete can be developed...
...looked upon with suspicion is too deeply rooted in the mind of the ignorant and ill informed man to be dispelled by mere argument. You may argue with this individual and he will listen to you with a humorous twinkle in his eye realizing that he cannot answer the contentions of those who espouse the cause of the profession, but at the same time believing that the very strength of the argument against him is due to some subtle twist of logic that lawyers only are capable of using. He who doubts this need only to accost the first laborer...
...number of instructors whose time is taken up with work that belongs in the nursery and which is shirked by the high schools. When we have made all other reforms, if the cost of living demands it, we shall, as heretofore, increase the salaries of these instructors. But we cannot afford bribes to keep their noses to useless grindstones. We shall still their whines and sap their shoddy patronage of puppy yellow journals, but let it be clearly understood we appreciate that they are incapable of sacrifice...
...ever occurred to him that teachers are notoriously the poorest paid professional men, that while the cost of living has soared, with a consequent increase of wages in all other branches of activity, instructors are now living on the same pay they received years ago? A man cannot do his best when he is constantly required to work overtime and outside of his regular duties in order to make both ends meet. Our correspondent's theories are delightful but scarcely convincing. It is at least novel to see an undergraduate demanding "personal sacrifice" from his instructors...