Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parades with clubs generally made every effort to incite the strikers to violent action. Of course, such melodramatic tactics have defeated their own ends. The strikers have refused to riot and every fresh outrage has gained them scores of sympathizers. For the detached mind there is even an element of humor in the picture painted of Garfield in metropolitan newspapers yesterday, when scores of deputy sheriffs patrolled the empty streets armed to the teeth seeking trouble while the workers watched behind closed doors...
...management of an English college seems, to an American, characterized by absence of system, of hard and fast rule. Discipline, where required, is administered by admonition, by persuasion or pressure, to suit the individual case. And with respect to instruction and education, the personal element predominates, especially in the training of undergraduates who are reading for honors. In most English university colleges there are two classes of students, the "honors" men and "pass" men. Here again, a reasonable elasticity, a recognition of the personal inclinations, needs, and capacities of the undergraduate, is the governing principle...
...drive will last two weeks longer, in which time an especial attempt will be made to reach those students who live outside the college. Very few of this large element in the Freshman class has been visited...
...called, was obviously a theatrical stroke to arouse the sympathies of the general public, it brought out the fact that the strike was partly for the children's benefit. The placards which were carried in the parade were of course sentimental in the extreme, but they contained an element of truth, and also demonstrated that the children were parading for their own sake as well as their parents...
...great deal has been said, principally by the more conservative element, derogatory to the modern dance...