Word: condemnable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country. At present, the private school men are united and elect the class officers, while the public school men, feeling that they cannot break down the bulwark of convention set up by the private school men, remain disunited. So with every advantage on their side, private school graduates condemn studies, and in their desire to be great little men, go out for competitions. Then when they attain distinction in extra-curriculum activities, they consider themselves the prominent undergraduates of Harvard College, and look forward to seeing their splendid achievements carefully enumerated in the newspapers when they become engaged, or inherit...
...leaders in undergraduate affairs, with a few exceptions condemn studies. As men who are thought to be great will always be imitated by other men a large number of students holding approminent place in extra-curriculum activities likewise look upon studies with unconcern. This general attitude is strengthened by the existence of two or three conventional phrason...among the most popular of which is the saying that if an undergraduate takes part in extra-curriculum activities, he will "find himself." Of course, what happens to the undergraduate when he goes out for competitions is that he acquires a sort...
...leaders in undergraduate affairs with a few exceptions condemn studies...
...dearest children, have always execrated crime when you unanimously condemn two atrocious assassinations." [Referring to two deaths in Fascist riots at Pisa...
...better word, spirit--the core of personality which animates a man and makes him greater than a clod. Mere assimilation of facts and details, important as this is in providing the basis for intellectual growth, is only one factor in three. The old guard are all too ready to condemn without seeing that it is not evasion but eagerness for more than they are willing to give, which prompts the so-called rebellion. Youth demands a complete man, and will not rest content with a mere third