Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is to the credit of the French and Germans and to the discredit of the Americans. You young people cannot conceive of the intensity of competition in the European countries to make a living and secure a position in the higher walks of life. The openings in the professions and the opportunities in business and vocational life are very small as compared to those in the United States. The sons and daughters of the ordinary people who go to the lycee and gymnasium cannot afford to waste time in their student years. The morality is great and graduation from...
...those of the Junior and Senior years of college. I believe, therefore, that were those two years of college to be added to the four years of high school, there would be a gain all around. Many boys and girls who want and deserve a college education but who cannot afford to go to the distant college or state university would get a junior college education. Moreover they would get a better college education for the best teachers of the high schools are at the to whereas, generally speaking, the poorest teachers of the college are at the bottom. Moreover...
Certain, colleges, tend to stamp their mark on the students that attend these institutions. They cannot entirely equalize individual differences but they can make an undergraduate body enough of a unit so that it has different qualities from that of another college. The same environment, the same method of instruction, similar customs and traditions tend to form a whole from a heterogeneous mass of preparatory and high school graduates...
...homes, and that what makes them religious constitutes one of the chief causes of the Reformation and all subsequent schisms. The questionnaire is presumably non-dimensional and as such has little interest in sects. Nevertheless the distinctions between modern churches are sometimes of such very great breadth that one cannot subscribe to the tenets of dissimilar faiths, deeply as one may sympathize with them in their ambition to reach God in their own way. Advertising religion is at best an effort to further spiritual progress by materialistic mediums--and this latest attempt is unfortunately symbolical of the entire movement which...
Deftly, even dumbly, lie has poised on the cliff of fancy the future of the United Fruit Company. And how well Miss Fyre from the School of Dramatics While you Wait read her correspondence. To say that these schools like the great Sears. Roebuck cannot breen genius is to verge on the truth. And imagine verging on the truth. In fact imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square...