Word: expected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appreciation is more in order than a review. This department is doing its full duty to its readers in saying merely that the passing years have treated the play and the players kindly. There is none of the mechanical action and listless mouthing of lines that one might expect after four years of daily performances. Miss Jeanne Eagels still puts all of herself into the role of Miss Sadie Thompson, the lady of ill repute who turns toys curvy the sedentary life of Pago Pago. The rest of the players still give her sincere, intelligent support. The rain machine still...
...social thinking of America needs to root itself in roulettes. If the experiences which The Nation's contestants have undergone were common to great numbers of college undergraduates it would not be too much to expect a virtual revolution in their political and economic creeds. A summer in a canning factory can cure for a lifetime as well impracticable economic idealism as the more common fault of a callous social conscience...
...finest of university graduates, it is important to see the problem and the remedy. The rewards of education, of course, cannot all be reduced to statistics. A professor of English literature will never be paid like the president of a railroad, and no embryo professors ever expect to be. But as long as they can hope to strike no higher average than $3111 after spending $8500 and 20 years in preparation, the great majority of the best of them will continue to turn regretfully to railroads and banks and law offices and brokerage establishments...
...Meiklejohn is one of the great and gifted teachers of this generation. His philosophical studies have been enriched by fruitful contacts with cativities outside the boundaries of his special subject. I think Wiseonsin is to be congratulated on Mr. Meikllejohn's appointment. From him we expect productive scholarship and provocative teaching...
...last week, "to be able to announce the appointment of Alexander Meiklejohn as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Meiklejohn is one of the great and gifted teachers of this generation. I think Wisconsin is to be congratulated on his appointment. From him we expect productive scholarship and provocative teaching...