Word: childishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suspension for one year of his degree is a logical punishment for a student who has not yet learned more of the fundamentals of behavior. None can be said to be educated to the extent of a college degree if he still indulges in childish and petty vandalism whether through thoughtlessness or spite. Nothing need be said of one who would smoke among millions of dollars worth of books and manuscripts...
...consultations. Stock reasons why Britain must hold India: 1) "she cannot relinquish her trust"; 2) deprived of the Pax Britannica, India would be torn with Hindu-Moslem civil war; 3) "Britain is the only sure defense of the Untouchables," some 45,000,000 souls; 4) politically Indians are too "childish" to rule themselves. In India Last Week...
...college. But a house individualism established through an uncritical limitation, and not through a sober development of its own faculties, is not an individualism that breeds men who think for themselves. The student members have proved themselves very lamb-like in accepting certain superficial actions, not bad though occasionally childish. The zealous minority is coaxing an effortless majority...
...once discovered in a shadowy Berlin museum making faces at the statuary, at least it suggests the extraordinary Pucklike character of the dancer as reflected in her work. Her repertoire of more than 50 "Episodes and Compositions in Dance Form," first undertaken five years ago, has an air of childish precocity, infantile sensuality. She dances like a brilliant little girl amusing herself before the mirror of her mother's boudoir. Like a little girl's performance, Miss Enters' dancing is not flawless. This was again apparent last week when she appeared in Manhattan in a program...
...eight-hour display in the Yard Monday night and early yesterday morning of club initiates carousing without the slightest regard for the men residing there is of course, extremely childish. Such sophomoric abortions as the invasion of dormitory rooms whose occupants were totally unknown to the neophytes, the moronic use of any device calculated to arouse a maximum of noise, and deliberate annoyance of professors residing in the Yard dormitories are not even on a par with collegiateism, a trait which supposedly has been successfully segregated from the Harvard tradition...