Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does indeed look as if the Germans had get held of a very grave danger. Suppose this psychic sense should be developed by its rise, until everyone is at once psychically powerful and similarly receptive. The concentrated "will" of fifty students would seen drive the boldest professor from the platform, no one would receive less than "A" in any of his courses. The night watchman has only to be "wished" somewhere else, to make burglary mere child's play And so it goes. The fate of the world is easy to see. Let us therefore nip the evil...
...opportunity of attending college, have already richer opportunties of association with life in the world about them. Many men have lost the chance of becoming great artists by going to college, and as the situation now stands no man with a brilliant genius for creative artistry should run so grave a risk of hampering his chances for a successful dramatic career as to attend college...
...with a brilliant genius for creative artistry should run so grave a risk of hampering his chances for a successful dramatic career as to attend college". In these words Mr. Walter Prichard Eaton, in another column of this issue phrases one of the most striking condemnations of the most striking condemnation of the American College ever uttered. The cultural background and intellectual interests which are essential to the dramatist, he finds lacking in the ordinary college graduate. Inasmuch as the latter is expected to have acquired both of these as a result of his college course, it would seem...
...today this motto is in grave danger. I refer to the attempt to remove Harold D. Wilson from the position of Prohibition Enforcement Officer merely because he has "shown up" a few prominent politicians while enforcing the law. And what is worse, the very ones who seem likely to wreck this worthy principle are the fellow partisans of its originator...
Because of the grave danger now existing, and because of the impossibility of immediately jumping to the ideal, it is essential to consider what steps might be taken to remedy the situation. The most obvious is the elimination of training before the opening of the college term, and cutting down the schedule to make this possible. It may also be advisable to abandon such forms of advertising as have been seen on subway billboards, which rather vitiates any claim that revenue is not sought after by but is merely thrust upon the Athletic Association...