Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carefully spreading benevolent salve on old political sores, proposing no new important legislation, President Coolidge's message was read to both houses of Congress by the clerks. In reporting the health of the Republic, the message said; "It is impossible to characterize it other than one of general peace and prosperity. . . . In some quarters our diplomacy is vexed with difficult and as yet unsolved problems, but nowhere [the clerk paused] are we met with armed conflict...
When people speak of the other Senator from New York, they are usually referring to a doctor with a flower in his buttonhole, Royal S. Copeland, writer of syndicated articles on health published on the newsless pages of newspapers. Among other things, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a trustee of Syracuse University, a teetotaler. Last week he announced: "I am ready to burn all my bridges behind me in order to carry out the will of the people of this State" for a modification of the Volstead Act. Said he: "I do not think that...
...just the moment for such an exhibition. Of recent weeks the Manhattan press had been full of controversy over the desirability, from the standpoints of health, traffic, economics and art, of steepling and peopling further that rock-bottomed little island upon which whole new cities have been superimposed annually for a decade. The Chicago press, after months of extravagant paeans about Chicago's towering new hotels, newspaper cathedrals and dizzy spires for housing jewelers, oil men, furniture merchants, athletes, chicle-venders, and to support a Methodist cross, had not yet quieted down sufficiently to overhear the murmurs of reaction...
Another reason for the conservatism of the American college may be that the American public displayed no interest in any such experimenting. The well-trained mind was not in any great demand on a continent where good health and steady habits were almost the only prerequisites to fortune. The conditions have not greatly changed with the passing years. The American people, progressive in many other points, have been utterly reactionary in their points, have been utterly reactionary in their attitude towards intellectual training. Parents have discourged concentration upon study, and employers have put more emphasis upon the non-academic record...
...time when a greater variety of experiments were being conducted or suggested by serious men. The very existence of such experiments, it is true, indicates widespread dissatisfaction with traditional systems, whether belonging to individual colleges or heretofore generally accepted. But, after all, all these things are signs of health; not sickness, in the educational world. When men of broad and daring vision, like Dr. Meiklejohn, are not only permitted but encouraged to work out their theories in one state university, when the President of another announces a radical experiment the coming year, when Swarthmore. Dartmouth. Princeton, and Harvard, are testing...