Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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tionist brigade, made up of people who are said to "think they know much better what is good for other people than such foolish folk can possibly know themselves." These foolish folk are said to be so mad that if successful they will not stop with prohibition, but will decide what Scotchmen are to eat, how Scotchmen are to do their work, occupy their leisure run the home and bring up the children...
...true American, take his stand with the party among whose leaders Governor Calvin Coolidge and Mayor Ole Hanson stand foremost." A Harvard Speaker Sweet! Those who are Democrats, or who are for the man and not for the party, must feel themselves out in the cold with the foolish virgins or over on Deer Island with the Reds. Perhaps, outcasts that we are, we may point out that party is a means and not an end; that the good American, the intelligent American, votes the Republican or Democratic ticket not because he is a Republican or Democrat, but because...
There is an old story which is probably known to everyone. There were ten virgins of whom five were wise and five foolish. The wise virgins took oil with them, but the foolish did not. When, at last, the bridegroom came, the foolish virgins found themselves without oil, and as they could borrow none, they were compelled to go out and buy. When they returned they found themselves locked...
This parable applies with great nicety to men of similar sentiments to those of the composers of the letter in yesterday's CRIMSON. Such men may be likened to the foolish virgins, for when the crisis comes, they will find themselves "outside the locked door,' while the true Americans are inside enjoying the wedding feast. J. ROBERT MELISH...
...other hand, without its extra-curriculum activities Harvard would not be able to function on the same basis as other American colleges. The one is as essential as the other. Blanket condemnation of private schools, based on the scholastic standing of their alumni in the colleges, is foolish and absurd...