Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course it would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant...
...Grave and stately in appearance," says the "Nation," "Dr. Eliot is not in reality an austere man. Even a slight intimacy reveals geniality, kindness, and humor; but his inability to trifle with the truth, his scorn of insincerity and affectation, and his courageous frankness of utterance sometimes frighten the timid. His spoken and written style is a faithful expression of his character. It is a style without applied ornament, without excess of kind, the utterance of a just and valiant man. Though strong-willed and self-assured, he sought to make his policies prevail not by the exercise of autocratic...
Hitherto undisturbed in the belief that his "Areopagitica" had won the fight against censorship, Milton will undoubtedly turn uneasily in his grave at all this fire and brimstone. He might sensibly suggest that a discussion of the matter be relegated to Oxford, "the home of lost causes. And his proposal would undoubtedly find a host of supporters when it became generally known that a book could be suppressed under this bill for "a description of a man eating corn beef and cabbage with his fingers...
Also, if Mr. Shepherd really believes that modern society is tottering nearer and nearer the grave, it is indeed fortunate for his own peace of mind that similar experiments have not been made among the generality of college students, for whom, one fears, the age of accountability may be placed lar beyond twelve. Lives there a man in any of the Newtons, for example, who has not found that it is possible to travel from Harvard Square, with transfer, to almost any outlying point for only five cents instead of the legally ordained ten? And yet to argue...
...intercourse with the faculty gained by a student who takes examination after examination. The instructors are friendly, of course, the student eager for learning. Both appear to their best advantage, cordial, disinterested, and sharing an admiration for the language in question.--An admiration the student will carry to his grave...