Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such application of outside pressure as this destroys the whole ideal of modern education. Presumably a man goes to college not to learn a certain number of facts but to acquire intellectual independence, the power of thinking for himself. If faculties carefully sandbag expressions of opinion which run counter to capitalist interest, they betray that freedom of thought which it is their function to inspire...
...toll was $1.75," said the stranger, laying the exact change on the counter. "Thank you," he added courteously and departed...
...measure of the Country Day puck men by a 3 to 1 count at the Braeburn rink. The losers put up a hard struggle but were outclassed by the rugged Crimson seconds. Higgens, at the left defense post for the winners, was high scorer with two tallies. The third counter was made by Bailey, speedy center...
Both these proposals were rejected by the miners, who made a counter proposal to modify the second offer by providing for a conciliation board without an umpire to fix the wages for 1927-30. The operators rejected this offer on the grounds that without an umpire the Board might deadlock...
Then in 1882 Leo XIII (who, while he was papal nuncio in Brussels, had noted the young priest), conceived the idea of establishing a chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many...