Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bryan, with masterly eloquence, declared that our only hope lay in the Christian Religion. Practically everyone agrees with him here. But what has this to do with Evolution? I myself believe in both Christ and Darwin, and fail to see the wisdom of not doing so. True, the theory blows into bits the idea of the Creation as told in the Old Testament. Our Religion is founded on the New Testament, and has little to do with the Old. I think science is strengthening religion, not destroying it. The more we study the facts, and begin to realize that this...
...Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University: "Overspecialization. . . . I mean spending so much time on the mechanics of steam engines that we have no time left for studying the mechanics of life. . . . It breaks the country up into different groups. Each group has an absolutely different point of view. They fail to understand each other. This creates animosity and ill will. It is said that if the Germans had not devoted all their time and energy before the War to specialization, they would not been so blind as to have started . . . . We are just beginning to the effects of this over...
This means that Los Angeles prefers to sponsor the Games in 1932, but doubtless many European cities will welcome an invitation, should the Netherlands fail to raise the requisite amount of money...
...student advisors for Freshmen is excellent in theory, in practice it has been far from satisfactory. Few of the Senior advisors do more than see their advisees once, and extend a vague invitation to "drop around" whenever the Freshman may feel the need of advice. Many of the advisors fail to see their charges even once. The system was designed to serve as a more intimate link between the Freshman and the University than any faculty advisor could be, has become an obligation lightly assumed and seldom carried out on the part of the Senior...
Noble Newport Potts, President of the National Patriotic Council. She sent Mrs. Moore a 1,000-word letter desiring categorical replies to such questions as "Will your conference . . . fail to open any session with prayer ?" "Will your conference . . . permit to be distributed . . . ultra-pacifistic literature including the horrible 'slacker's oath' wherein spineless young men promise never to fight for their country . . . and soulless women agree never to sew a bandage. . . ?" Were any persons listed in one R. M. Whitney's book Reds in America to speak...