Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defects of the present system, even for the man who has his club, tend to defeat almost equally one of the prime essentials of education, namely, that one acquire as broad a knowledge of human nature as possible. It is quite right that the clubs exist, and it is natural that they should draw together men of kindred interests. This is an excellent feature of college life, as all will admit. But when there is no effective center of gravity larger than the club to draw men of different interests together, there is great danger that the clubs will lead...
...life to which they are already accustomed, while for the latter, college is a wholly new experience, a complete break with the past. But once the two groups find themselves in competition with each other in college, new influences arise which tend to emphasize the differences which already exist between...
...class of 1748, the income to be applied among other things "to establish his reputation, too long neglected as a devoted and faithful friend of his country", one more soldier of the Revolution will be rescued from the limbo of almost forgotten generals whose chief glory seems to exist, according to the popular mind, in a solitary monument on some old battlefield, or in the musty texts of arid histories and encyclopedias...
...CRIMSON reporter then ventured to ask if Walt Whitman at least did not possess some of the robust masculine qualities which are attributed to him. "As in Sandburg, these qualities exist in Whitman's words only," Mr. Hillyer replied. "The sentimental note of his early stories was the underlying one in all of his works, even after he had picked up that trick of bold, virile lenguage which made him famous...
That really is the question which confronts the University Debating Union. Either the Union exists or it does not exist. And when such questions as the might of Mencken are its sole breath of life, it cannot be called particularly vital...