Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...superstitions of the public is that college professors lead sheltered, if not monastic lives. This is one of the great weaknesses of our educational system today; it is so arranged that its scholars cannot help giving an impression of aloofness from the troubles of the outside world. A number of able professors in the political science department at Columbia have recently made an attempt to show that they are not disconnected from actualities. They have drawn up an effective and sound criticism of the war debts settlements, hoping in doing this to attract the attention of the administration...
...annual Christmas entertainments will be provided this week for the students of the University, who for one reason or another cannot go home for the holidays. On Christmas Eve President and Mrs. Lowell are holding a reception for Harvard men, and the evening of Christmas day itself will be "Open House" at the Phillips Brooks House...
...These are facts that cannot be gotten around by hifalutin talk about the beauty of Southern women and the chivalry of Southern men," said the professor of English...
This system cannot be considered sound unless one admits its parallel. Suppose the training of the mind depended financially on the drawing power of a few members of the faculty in their lectures. Suppose the tutorial system. Widener Library and Jefferson Laboratory depended for their existence on the financial returns from three or four Billy Sundays lecturing in Mechanics Hall and the New York Hippedrome on government, literature, and science at five dollars admission. It would be laughable of course but it is no more illogical and wrong than to make the development of bodily health depend upon a similar...
...Their one regret is that they cannot greet you in this building. Yet there is no building that could withstand the shock of their greeting. And so they are now gathering outside, amid surroundings that have become inseparable parts of their lives, to give you a fitting reception in their own barbaric...