Word: depending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sooner or later college authorities, even at Yale, will come to realize that the attempt to make nobility of character depend upon an antiquated theory of the universe which no educated man believes, is fraught with very serious consequences. When a young student's awakened intellect rejects the metaphysics of his teaching, what then is to save him from throwing aside, as also without justification, his ideas of duty and morality which he was told were inseparable from that metaphysics...
...however, it is the student who is important, college executives must flood some way to free themselves from the thralldom to their faculties, by insisting that new appointments, and promotions as well shall depend primarily upon ability to impart knowledge and interest to young people. This and not stiffer entrance requirements, is the way to increase the number of graduates who will throughout their lives do credit to their Alma Mater...
...state of affairs. On the other hand it will lay their nationals and their interests open to suffering and trespass if not destruction by the anti-foreign sentiment abroad in China. If the powers stand strictly by their treaty rights they may so weaken the Government on which they depend for guarantee of those rights, that they may within a few months or years be faced with the alternative of using force or losing their foothold in the country. In that case Soviet Russia would be ready to step into their place, posing as the friend of China. The course...
Cattle, however, depend for their value directly on their beef; their hides are a byproduct. Tanners thus lack the control over supplies of their raw material...
...that statement is untrue, the thought naturally arises in my mind, can I depend upon other statements in your publication ? I know of newspapers where editors deliberately publish things that are not true because they think they ought to do it in order to stand well with their subscribers. Such people, in my judgment, are not only unfair to the newspaper profession, but they are doing a decided injury to their fellowmen by perpetuating untruths among them. Being very fond of Walt Whitman, I am, of course, sufficiently familiar with his poetry to know that he was not an atheist...