Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent report of university professors condemning intercollegiate football as now conducted. That report reads like the expressions of dismay of the "wets" on the morning after prohibition. The professor engaged in his Addison walk of contemplation has bumped into the stadium and cannot imagine how it came into existence. Fear, which is the child of ignorance, cries. "Down with it," but second thought suggests that the institution is here and that the sooner it is brought into line with the general purpose of the college the better it will...
...pride and prejudice have forced this, together with a large amount of real fear, into the darkness and away from the light of common interest and community research. And the very fact that this has so long held true must-remind many that this is not a question which can be settled in any easy or immediate manner...
...Nation has a policy of commending the novel and the hold. And the present case seems in some ways an excellent one to commend. For these students who are attempting by intelligent fraterization to remedy inferiority complexes and fueds of the recila variety to do away with fear and folly are on the right track. Yet they must not be too sure how well they can travel that track until they have studied the situation and realized most keenly that others before them have in fearing to attempt this been less cowardly than discrete. If they can do this then...
Cardinal Vaini, passing his 80th year among a gardenful of hobbling rabbits and the brilliant pagan writers of the new century, at his sequestered villa on the Janiculum, is an object of fear and reverence to the Vatican, of warmest affection to the Cabala. As a brilliant young theologian, he shocked his teachers by burying himself in China, a missionary with a pigtail. He built a cathedral and by sheer force of statistics won first a mitre, then the Hat. A pistol bullet fired near him by ecstatic Mile, de Morfontaine puts him in mind of how the faith...
Myths he has fed upon. Upon myths will be continue to feed. So perhaps one need take with no less salt his fear than the calm which preceded it. If the administration is honest this order was issued merely for the purpose of assisting Californian agents in the performance of their "duty". And it is always well to believe that the administration is honest...