Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number of the Harvard Advocate peculiarly interesting as an index of the reaction of a group of representative undergraduates to the force now stirring the world. In this number the present widespread social and political unrest is ascribed to various causes, among which Mr. Colby '21 emphasizes the dearth of old fashioned orthodox religion. He sees possibilities of license in the present opportunities for liberty of speech and opinions in this country, and points out the dangers we face through lack of some central autocratic fear-inspiring authority...
...direct and authoritative explanation of the League situation would make it more worth while, if the Student Council and the University authorities are so minded, to secure another speaker. Of course Mr. Taft is the most prominent available leader of constructive thought on this subject. But there is no dearth of other fair-minded and serious Americans who have studied the problem. Perhaps one or more of them would be glad to address a collegiate League of Nations mass-meeting...
...foreign criticism is exaggerated; the foreigner fails to see any differences because he does not understand us; he see us as a people, not as individuals. Yet, when we examine his statements we find much truth in them. And paramount among the explanations which we can offer for the dearth of individualism in the United States stands our educational system, with its emphasis on the average student. Our colleges seem altogether to encourage a dead-leveling process, which stifles great individual attainment...
...with Ulysses, "Tho' much is taken, much abides." In spite of a blank here and there to be replaced at a later day with a teacher's name, in spite of the recurrences of "Omitted in 1918-19," it is clear at a glance that there will be no dearth of sound instruction in a great variety of learned subjects. In the branch of learning now more essential than ever before, the military branch, even this preliminary announcement has shown the addition of a third course in Military Science and Tactics, in which elementary instruction in artillery...
...decades for the completeness of their curative science and the ability of their practitioners. The demands of war have been undreamed of for men who could restore effectives to the firing-line. We have sent of our very best, yet that has not proved enough to stay the growing dearth...