Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women who goes out from an American university today determined to live for financial gain or for personal fame, is one blind to the world's needs and deaf to the challenge of God. We are summoned to go out with a vision of a new world bright before our eyes that there is one who can make that new world possible, but that upon us rests a mighty responsibility to wage eternal warfare against those forces which are seeking to prevent the coming of that new world...
...trained diplomat and his recent victories over the Greeks in a military way are credited to strategy of the highest order,--but his greatest usefulness at the conference, from the Turkish point of view at least, lies in the fact that he is almost stone deaf. His hearing, writes a correspondent, is so poor that he never goes anywhere without an aide-de-camp to rebellow into Ishmet's ear everything that has been shouted at him. Add to this handicap the point that Ishmet, though understanding French, is the "least proficient of all Turks in speaking...
...methods. What we need is a differentiation between the good minds and the poorer ones. Then we may go ahead with intensive, individual instruction for those men who have proved themselves worthy of it. At one end of the scale we do differentiate. We look after the blind and deaf we put the feeble-minded in special institutions. It is time that we provided special training to utilize to the fullest extent the best mind of the country...
This is a direct appeal to our sense of humanity on a scale that has never been known before. No one can be deaf to it, least of all Harvard men, who have never been slack when such a call has come. Nearly ten thousand of them heard the voice of Duty and Patriotism and served in the Great War. The undergraduates and other students now may be counted upon to do their utmost. Harvard men do not allow little children to die of hunger, and whenever there has been a great cause, whether of Patriotism or of Humanity, Harvard...
According to a recent article in the Yale News, Yale appears to be taking positive steps forward toward collegiate polo. Already she has scheduled the West Point Cadet Polo team, which has shown up well during the past year, and the New York National Guard Cavalry team. A great deaf should be expected of Yale for making some progress in this direction as her facilities are practically complete. She should have few or no handicaps of any considerable importance as her local facilities were made before the war when they little realized when they would eventually be put to such...