Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several hundred questions which have already been telephoned in. The results show that three-fourths of the inquiries have been for the addresses and phone numbers of students and instructors of the University. Of the remaining quarter, ten percent have been reluctantly placed in the category of foolish questions by the man in charge of the desk and the other 15 percent are labelled as miscellaneous...
...whom study has not ossified. The teaching profession today needs men, not walking dictionaries. True scholars, in addition to possessing profound knowledge, are eminently human and their knowledge is human. This human quality, moreover, can never be measured in terms of a Ph.D. And until American colleges abandon their foolish worship of a Ph.D. and substitute for it a combined standard of knowledge and personality, much of what we complacently term "education" will continue to be hollow inane, and futile...
...departure of M. Yessenin for Moscow in the custody of two private detectives employed by his wife: "Everybody knows my husband is crazy. ... He is better off in Russia where he is loved even if he is foolish. ... He can smash things in Moscow and nobody cares because he is a poet...
...bitingual or French liturgic drama. The wise and the foolish virgins. The Jeu d'Adam...
...favor of an increase in our seating capacity which will make unnecessary the unpleasant and harmful distinction which must now be made between the student and graduate bodies of the professional schools and those of the College. Nor do I consider that I am either "short-sighted" or "foolish" in favoring such a proposal...