Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wooden cage. 'These,' she told officials at the Palace, 'must be placed in His Majesty's sleeping room for their breathing purifies the air.' The birds too were retained and, so rumor has it, were released a few hours afterwards in the beautiful Palace gardens, where they will no doubt flourish far better than they would have done in their wooden cage...
...mind. The House plan, as it is at present conceived, obviously will tend to throw students into contact with all types of their associates. It may even succeed in giving them a certain social breadth which they would not obtain under any other system; though here one well may doubt if the stubbornly dissimilar social elements of which Harvard is composed can be fused even in an especially prepared crucible...
...announcement yesterday that there was a serious doubt about the advisability of holding a Junior Dance this year was disappointing surprise to many members of the class. The Junior Prom is an old tradition at Harvard, as in most colleges, which is anticipated with pleasure. It is a pity that the indifference of a few members of the class should be more in evidence than the strong desire of many to continue the custom. It is strange that a militant move should be underway in the Sophomore class to hold a dance this year, while the Juniors should be expressing...
...sports are to be taught in the schools, and there is no doubt organized sports have now a permanent place in their curricula, there is no reason why they should not be taught well. School-boys are none the worse for having their coaching at second hand if the quality is better, and both the colleges and the public share in the benefits that accrue from a higher standard of play...
...religious parents must be vigorously combated. . . . Skill and persuasion must be used. I do not approve the overzealous methods of some school teachers who make a practice of tearing off every crucifix which they espy on a child's neck. . . . Such methods are not efficacious. ... I also doubt the wis dom of instructing advanced classes in anti-religion by the method of dissecting before them the remains of so-called saints or other fetishes. The shock with which such demonstrations impinge upon latently religious minds often produces, in my experience, a negative result. We must be more subtle...