Word: condemns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the eloquence of lovers shines with success. Nothing is more persuasively employed than the appeals made to it, against the rigid prescriptions of duty. Thus, when a lover makes use of this trite argument: "Either nature is imperfect in itself, by giving us inclinations that the laws condemn, or the laws are justly accusable or too great severity, in condemning inclinations given us by nature", this profound sophistry means: "Since you have scruples, my game is to remove them. Reasin may give itself what airs it pleases; but if you love me, nature will do the rest...
...There are quantities of people who condemn a play because it happens to be unpleasant. Their idea of the Theatre is a place to go for a good laugh or a tug of war among the heart strings. The preponderance of this type of drama lover has killed many a fine play in its deserving youth. For these A Man's Man is a good play to stay away from...
...mind of the student must be led, and the lead must be attractive. If the classroom, the lecture, and the conference have not the vigor of the world of sport, one cannot condemn youth for choosing the latter. The educator who would build character, build the wholeness which has been an ideal ever since the Greeks first demonstrated it, must not content himself with thwarting natural tendencies. He must divert those tendencies into the most effective channels...
...cannot help feeling also that much injustice is done Dr. Sheffer in the criticism of Philosophy 1. If there is anything he tries to avoid in this course it is the "parrcting a number of logical rules-of-thumb" for which you so harshly condemn him. If any one doubts this let him compare the texts used in Philosophy 1 with the treatises on "formal logic" used in most college courses in logic. Let him also read some of the final examinations which Dr. Sheffer has set in his course in which no rules of logic, no technical knowledge...
...easy to dishonor dead emperors; I leave all those, including William II, to the Socialist member, who I feel has no grounds to condemn a Communist for praising a Roman since he donned a frock coat to attend the Hindenburg inauguration...