Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, I think we should be fair to ourselves and ask why we are not more successful. We may say that it is because the colleges are in America. For the most part America is a very hard country in which to teach. As Mr. Duggan suggests, America is very busy about a great many other things. It is pretty hard to teach literature in schools to children who come from homes where a good book is never read. It is pretty hard to teach philosophy in a world where there is no taste for it in its social life...
...dedicated to Chicagoans who turned the century] was a dirt road leading south from the greasy river, past brownstone respectability to prairie pioneering in those windblown, grass-grown suburbs, Oakland, Hyde Park, the Midway? And how Chicago sprang up and spread out, so that when the World's Fair opened, with the world's biggest this and the world's finest that, it was a city, with plenty of black smoke and red light neighborhoods and corrupt politicians to prove it?" Yes, gracious yes, the reader remembers-if he is the right reader...
...call me, lady fair...
...main course. "Specials" similar to those served in the Freshman Dining Halls and the Union should also be available at additional cost. There should be reduced rates for men "signing on" in advance for longer periods: $11 per week and $40 per four-week period are suggested as fair adjustments. Students should be allowed to pay cash or charge their meals on term-bills as they prefer...
...perspiration and wet woolens arose from the people around him. They were people like himself, of obscure destiny and unimportant identity, working people, going home to supper. The young man was 20 years old, a clerk by profession, secretary to one Thomas Gibson Bowles, proprietor and editor of Vanity Fair. The article he read told about Thomas Edison...