Word: differences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students who filled out the coupon and returned it to the Log, one noted, "I'm going t college to fit my needs. They conceivably might differ from those of 2000 other students...
...This growth of the curriculum raises . . . the main problem of this report, which has to do, not with the thousand influences dividing man from man, but with the necessary bonds and common ground between them. Democracy, however much by ensuring the right to differ it may foster difference--particularly in a technological age which further encourages division of function and hence difference of outlook--yet depends equally on the binding ties of common standards...
...appears quiet in Athens and Salonika. But all sources agree that danger lies ahead unless the excesses of the right are checked and checked quickly. In effect, these excesses differ little from those reported in Yugoslavia. Arrests, imprisonments and murders have been carried out on a large scale. The British are just as agitated by this swing to the right as they were by the left swing, and are laboring to check...
...chosen the pieces for The Crack-Up so carefully that they lead in a straight, chronological line from Fitzgerald's youth and glory to his maturity and misery. Every aspect of his life and work - the brilliant, the second-rate, the real, the illusory - is shown. Readers may differ on the question of Fitzgerald's survival value, but they will respect Author Wescott's statement that Fitzgerald's life and fate mirrored the life and fate of a whole period of American life. "He was our darling, our genius, our fool. ... He lived and he wrote...
Such in brief is my report on the academic year which ends this afternoon. Some of you with grave responsibility for war and postwar affairs heavy on your shoulders may feel that I have been speaking of relatively trivial academic matters. If so, I beg to differ. Universal education is the great instrument created by American democracy to secure the foundations of a republic of free men. Our colleges and universities are an integral part of this system which has no equivalent in other lands. We are more closely linked to the national life, I believe, than the corresponding institutions...