Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four-Course Plan, but it would assist materially the educational policy which is being pursued at Princeton. This policy, if we read it aright, is to introduce the undergraduate to the materials of various fields of knowledge and encourage him to take advantage of them, rather than to confront him with a a lifeless array of facts summarizing the subject; and care is taken to wood out as soon as possible those not capable of sustaining this intellectual freedom. It is, of course, a truism that concentration and interest in a field of study increases in proportion as interruptions...
...compelled to admit the difficulties which will confront the Harvard authorities in their attempt to find if college to supplant the Army on the football schedule. For the West Point contest hitherto has been a great financial success. The Military Academy, in agreeing to but one contest at West Point after every three in Cambridge, has been generous in easing the obstacles raised by Harvard's rule limiting the football team to one trip away from Cambridge per season. But it is a matter of principle and of reason that the football team from West Point should be eliminated from...
...have to be made. ... It will require heroic efforts on Mr. Gifford's part to prepare for the heavy demands that will come with the first frost. It will require many millions of dollars." Next year it is altogether possible that Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt will confront each other in the Presidential election. In such a contest unemployment relief is likely to be a large issue. Last week while President Hoover, through Generalissimo Gifford. was building up in Washington what would become his "record" on this question, Governor Roosevelt at Albany was putting before the New York...
When Uncle Crawford tried to take his niece away Preacher Lowe tried to prevent him. Their argument impressed Brother Semple, brought him a real conviction of sin. He ran away into the darkness, wrestled with himself, decided to turn loose from glory-shouters. But conscience drove him back to confront Preacher Lowe and announce his defection. While Lowe forgivingly prayed for him Semple went away...
...reason is practical enough in all conscience. "Perhaps no college graduates within the past 15 years," he declares, "have faced the economic difficulties which confront the college graduate this June." In the huge roster of the unemployed he finds his justification. It would be unwise, he suggests, for the graduates this year to join the general competition for work if they can possibly avoid doing...