Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, with any jingoistic faith in huge national armaments but with a been realization that peace like the city of Romulus and Remus cannot be built in a day one is perpetually urged by the conditions of his age to wonder how best and with the least friction there can be maintained as a part of American education sufficient interest in and knowledge of modern warfare as to insure national integrity in whatsoever arises...
...vital need. How far that can be true, how far the greater necessity of a youth schooled in national defense can modify the certain corruption of the college incumbent upon real professionalization remains to be seen. At all events, in a period of educational experiment such a trial cannot fall to be interesting...
...Cannot something be done about this spirit-sapping parasite? Like a leech it clings to our educational system: why? no one knows. Final examinations are little more than comprehensive reviews of the amount of information a student receives in a given course, while they could be made to be objective and really useful...
...longer have the privilege of being a liberal shadow. I have been driven out into the sunlight, not a bad thing. I have no intention to accept my dismissal from the Liberal Party. I cannot be driven from the Liberal platforms. I see on sign of my being driven from the leadership of that party in the House of Commons...
...News won't do as the sole commodity for any paper, because Life, said to be a great dramatist, is a most indifferent journalist. You cannot leave the contents of any daily publication to Fate, because so very often Fate falls down badly and comes to the office empty handed. There are days, of course, when Life turns out prodigious copy. Quakes sometimes come on the very afternoon that Kings are dying. Cyclones have attempted to crowd Babe Ruth out of his fair share of space by picking the very day on which he made two home runs...