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...opposite of that which the word "education," in the Lowellian sense, implies. It is added, moreover, that it may become necessary to abolish the reading periods if the work is not done from the assigned books. Delivered of these powerful arguments against the Bureau, Dean Hanford proceeds further to demolish it by remarking that the use of short cuts tends to persuade the students that "the important thing in college is to pass examinations," or "encourages a certain type of student to even more questionable methods of passing the examinations." Finally, he concludes, the publication of these epitomes is unfair...
...looked like a pig, drank himself into a toper's grave. Her second husband was a humorous, bumbling fraud who preached a little (Carry used to interrupt his sermons), occasionally printed a newspaper, claimed the "brightest legal mind in Kansas." When bibliomancy revealed to Carry that she must demolish by "hatchetation" the blind tigers of Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Enterprise; when she was jailed for being a nuisance and refused to return home until she had destroyed the nation's supply of "hell broth," Preacher Nation divorced her. Carry, considering herself "just a bulldog at the feet of Jesus...
...railroad so that the Children's Collective can import raw material to provide work for idle hands. A model of regeneration, his great moment arrives when Fomka Zhigan, onetime Fagin of the wild boys, establishes a brothel near the Children's Collective. Aided by his comrades, Mustapha demolishes the place much as Carrie Nation used to demolish saloons, is later killed for doing so by Zhigan. Pictorially brilliant, like many another Russian film, Road to Life is tentative rather than original in its use of sound. English captions by Michael Gold make it intelligible for U. S. audiences...
Wreckers started to demolish buildings in Manhattan's West 40th and 50th Streets, clearing the way for John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s "Radio City," which is to be named Metropolitan Square. The Fine Arts Federation of New York proposed that the city run a new avenue between Fifth and Sixth Avenues from 42nd Street to Central Park and call it Metropolitan Avenue...
...Holiness defined marriage as a union primarily for the propagation and education of children, a pact of mutual faith and honor, an inviolable, indissoluble sacrament between its partners. Fervently he assailed the moral laxities, the intellectual theories, which tend to demolish this ideal. Said he: ". . . As Christ's vicar upon earth and supreme shepherd and teacher we consider it our duty to raise our voice to keep the flock committed to our care from poisoned pastures. . . . For now, alas! not secretly or under cover, but openly, with all sense of shame put aside, now by word, again by writings...