Word: delusional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Dearborn, in the Alumni Bulletin, goes even further to show that education is, in part at least, responsible for criminality which has always been attributed to heredity. President Cutten of Colgate takes up the attack at this point and switches the responsibility of education back to citizenship, for education...
It is a pleasing delusion among the supporters of this recommendation that as soon as the more conservative elements of the government are removed, there will remain no force hostile to them. It is not impossible that, when the judicial has been extracted, the Federation will find in a "purer...
Just now there seems to be a feeling among some of the older generation that the college man deserves criticism for the training he receives. It is the self-made man who knows things and the college man who deludes himself, and wastes his time becoming an ignoramus. That the...
One great university is credited with having graduated seventy men from its course in oil geology; at least three colleges are specializing in this science; the columns of a certain reputable trade journal contain professional cards of over fifty individuals and firms who specialize in oil geology; and the number...
This argument is founded upon the delusion that every verdant Freshman who enters the gates of Harvard knows just what is best for him, and that he will carry out to the letter this wisely planned schedule for his college career; which is a delightful prospect, but conceived in the...