Word: curing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...words of warning were first spoken, but. Washington said one the thing which will be eternally true so long as nations shall exist: "There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." "A just pride" would prompt us not to place our trust in the altruism of other nations, for every other nation in the world, until man's nature shall be revolutionized, will have its own interest to observe and its own enlightened selfishness...
...suggested remedies and the supposed defects, as worked out by these undergraduate officials, would fill a formidable volume. Compulsory membership was considered in 1916 as the most likely cure, as yet proposed, and its adoption was strongly urged upon the college authorities. Here, as in all other recommendations, cognizance had to be taken of the chief stumbling block--the insufficiency of attractive features as a means of fostering interest in the Union. The proverbial horse might be whipped, in a sense, to the trough of water, but he could not be forced to drink from that receptacle. In compelling each...
...country feller. Since William Hodge rang up a three-seasons' run in "The Man From Home," city chaps, wise guys and snobs have tried to spoof him, but William is spoof-proof. He is talking through his nose at the Majestic this week in a play called "A Cure For Curables," in which he makes considerable sport of his spoofers...
...happens, "A Cure For Curables" isn't a mastodonic success. It has a good idea, but as soon as it germinates, Hodge steps in sight for the first time and everybody knows the solution. In bringing about a happy fourth act, he foils three members of the caste, restores ten of them to health, regenerates one and marries one--all in the same evening. And if self-assurance was sand, Hodge would be the Sahara desert...
...opening, President Eliot said: "The principals of high schools have not kept in mind the importance of the elective system." He maintained that the cure of most of the educator's troubles lay in the proper adoption of the elective system, provided that care was used in carrying it into effect. He stated also that there was a need for physical training, such as is in force in the military system of Switzerland, and better instruction in hygiene...