Word: dishonestly
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...middle of the stream", or that they will vote for Roosevelt "because he is a Democrat and we need a change", or that Thomas is to receive their support "because neither of the other men is any good anyway". Another typical student attitude is that politics are dishonest and are no place for an honest man. Yet they never make an effort to ascertain the merits of the respective candidates-they merely vote the ticket supported by their fathers and their friends. The very men who are most needed in politics, if the affairs of our government...
...enemies into statues. This rogue (Gregory Ratoff) abducts a happy and prosperous flower girl (Gwili André), murders her aged father and plants evidence to incriminate her pickpocket lover. Then, in his shadowy chateau, he sets about hypnotizing her into a counterfeit princess, since he needs one for dishonest purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever. He sets the pickpocket free with instructions to solve the mystery. The pickpocket not only does so but he filches so successfully in and about the rogue's chateau that when he has rescued his flower girl by a narrow margin...
...each year. They must know Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, or Southern California to be "inferior in solidity to the secondary schools of England and the Continent," yet still they come, and object violently if refused admission. Not long ago an English schoolmaster declared the present English youth to be dishonest, lazy, and irresponsible. It is only a short step from such a general remark to Mr. Flexner's broad assertions concerning American students. Broadly aimed flank attacks of this kind upon the universities and colleges of a nation soon fall to pieces if the writer's assertions are rigidly tested...
...Advanced Study will be Princeton's new Henry Burchard Fine Mathematical Hall, a red brick & grey limestone collegiate Gothic structure. Its stained glass windows record the Einstein relativity formulas. Over a fireplace in the common room is engraved in German an Einstein epigram "God is clever, but not dishonest...
...facts about study in American universities justify to some extent the disrespect felt for certain types of research. But nothing could be more dishonest intellectually or more fatal to the whole spirit of university work than to confuse pedantic and largely fruitless study with scholarship at its best. That would be as unreasonable as the tendency to disparage the art of politics in its ideal Platonic sense because of the unprincipled machinations of Tammany Hall. The real meaning of scholarship is simply careful and thorough rather than slipshod and emotional thinking. The term is too often applied to work...