Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small sketch hidden away on page 289, untitled, unadorned. There is no use in going over the whole number in these columns, they suit better their natural habitat. Let the Jester mourn. When he does, we can smile; it is only when he is rioting in mirth that we cannot appreciate him. He has done a good job--let him mourn
Morals, as such cannot be taught. Once a theme for educational discussion, now generally acknowledged and specifically taught in at least one course of Harvard College, this idea is attacked by Dean R.A. Kent of the College of Liberal Arts at Northwestern University, in an article in the current Educational Review...
...article writers. Grave astonishment is the natural reaction to the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Carnegie Institute. The athlete, helpless under what has been called "the dumbing influence of athletics", is struck down with an adding machine and his body run over by the juggernaut of the intelligence quotient. He cannot answer his assailants: they themselves have said that his weapons are duller than standard fighting gear. One learns to accept all things in time; it remains painful, however, to picture the Carnegie Foundation clipping from behind...
...land because he owns the land, Mr. Astor discovered early the solace of the sea. Reporters cannot infest the oceans. The strain of question and answer to which a public figure is eternally subjected is particularly distasteful to the new commodore. Once, shrewdly said he: "The social gulf between Americans is not so much measured in money as in newspaper headlines...
...person who is able to see, language seems entirely a visual idiom. The gigantic concept of enabling those who cannot see, to imagine the meanings of the words they read, was the beginning of an extraordinary change in the condition of people who had heretofore been only a little less tragically useless than lepers. Now competent organizations function to aid the blind. In Mount Healthy, the Trader sisters, one blind, both with foresight, have established the Clovernook Press. There, by subscription, are printed books in braille. Kindly senators pass laws; a beneficent government charges no postage on books mailed...