Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of "The Commonweal" states that "the greatest defect of the American colleges is that they teach rather than educate, and the general run of them totally fail to create a love of learning or an enthusiasm for the higher life...
...United States spent nine billion dollars last year on the four D's; disease, defect, delinquency, and dependency. Why not eliminate their causes instead of attempting to deal with their effects?" was the statement upon which Mrs. Margaret Sanger based her address at the luncheon at the Liberal Club yesterday...
...lawmaker and the other to be a "kind of ambassador from the people of the district available for carrying on the business they have with the government departments." Such a proposal is slightly humorous. An overworked Congressman is beyond the conception of the average man. Yet a fundamental defect in the efficiency of our representative system is clearly revealed. Congressmen and Senators keep their eyes on their constituents rather than on the legislative products which they help to grind out. John Stuart Mill realized this defect and proposed a system not greatly unlike Mr. Sullivan...
...unsatisfactory nature of the condition imposed by the medium on her investigators. That she has failed to give evidences of supernormal phenomena, Dr. McDougall does not assert. His attitude on this point is defined as follows: "She has produced a very considerable quantity of such phenomena. The defect is in respect of the quality rather than of the quantity of the evidence. What I do assert is that the evidence of the opposite tendency far outweights the evidence of supernormality...
...Holy Scripture. Pithy platitudes, adopted from Scripture, lard all his public speeches. "The big thing in life is work. . . . Success comes by doing the common, everyday things of life uncommonly well." Hardly original, these utterances are those of a man to whom practicality is native, abstraction difficult, the defect of whose thought is rather narrowness than looseness. Narrow also is the needle...