Word: existant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ability to charm the female sex, and if you crowd them right close, they might reluctantly admit that they belong to the sheik class. As a rule they have more activity in their feet than in their heads. In fact, they are entirely too light at both ends. They exist in the South, North, East, and West, and not in the South alone...
...regard to No. 1 and No. 2, the U. S. would be delighted to make new treaties with China as soon as the U. S. could discover where China might be said to exist diplomatically. Until then, no treaties, for there is no China to treat with...
...Board of Admissions has decided to discontinue the practice of imposing admission conditions. Any significance or value which these may once have had, Professor Corwin says, has ceased to exist as far as concerns admission to the Undergraduate Schools of the University, since all students now admitted have given adequate fitness for college work...
...otherwise, the new plan is a recognition and enunciation of the principle that Language as Language and Language as Literature are two distinct things, that Philology and Linguistics are a specialized field, calling for a special aptitude, and that a real appreciation and knowledge of Literature, as Literature, can exist without any profound knowledge of that field...
...wide knowledge of English Literature and a sincere appreciation of its beauty has lived and died in happy ignorance of even the rudimentary principles of that science. It is high time that it was recognized, primarily at Harvard and in America at large, that the two types of men exist, that the teacher is not necessarily an inferior scholar to the research worker, that the two are rarely combined, and that both are needed in any liberal and well balanced system of education...