Word: expect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hopeless was the attack that Union soldiers pinned their names and addresses on their backs before starting. Eventually they withdrew. Said Lee: "Our success, . . . under the blessing of God [has been] all that we could expect...
...some of the educational policies and conceptions they might expect from Editor Frank, Wisconsin had but to hark back to a speech he made, last summer, at the University of Michigan : "I dislike to speak of education, religion and politics as if they were three distinct fields. They are, or should be, an indivisible unity. . . . The professor, the parson and the politician are at work on the same job . . . the achievement of 'the good life' for the citizen and for the Nation...
...Bryan is beyond doubt a very clever man, and in some ways as powerful a speaker as one could expect to hear. But last Friday evening he seemed essentially an expert juggler of fallacies. His reasoning was hollow. However eloquently it was presented, its convincing power wears off the more one thinks of it. His three main accusations against the Theory of Evolution were that it was silly, a mere guess, and a menace towards the Christian Religion...
Incidentally, Mr. Bryan declares that, with a fact to work on, science is all right. How does he expect us to arrive at the facts if he refuses us the theories to start with? S. L. Thorndike...
...Nature in the Scholastic Philosophy". But there are many lectures that make such subjects as English constitutional law or the French Revolution appear easier than they are, and these are well and faithfully followed. Attendance is not usually required, although a few dons have been known to expect their own pupils to attend their lectures; and it is hard to cut one's own tutor in his capacity as a lecturer. There are no quizzes in connection with the lectures, no required reading, and no examinations. Most men attend lectures recommended by their tutors as helpful in preparing for their...