Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aspects of life. But it does give a thoroughness and accuracy or knowledge which our young people so often lack. I would not be understood to advocate driving out of the American college the extra curricular activities that play so large a part in its life and, no doubt, help to develop the self-reliance and initiative which characterize so many young American college graduates. But I do insist that the college is primarily a place of intellectual appeal in which attention to the serious problems of life should be emphasized and not overshadowed by other activities such as inter...
...college to learn and somehow he has got to start out learning for himself, and take the initiative himself, and whatever the teacher does must be by the way of guidance and a mere supplement to that which the student does himself. I think that the teacher can help the student, but can not do it for him and that is what we are trying to do with our lecture system and our scheme of instruction. We are trying to hand on to the students the work done by the teacher. Of course, that statement is too strong but there...
...thought of the different kinds of sandwiches and what went between them; I did not like the choice or sandwiches offered. And I felt still differently when I found that they were the parents of this Association, and I was to stand between them, and then I could not help but wonder, which was the father and which was the mother. It was stated that Mr. McCracken was there when the child was born and Mr. Duggan was not, so I now do know which parent was which. But you can see some of the figures and various suggestions which...
...Part of it was easy-they had a crowbar and several pairs of scissors. Deputy Warden Peter N. Klein resisted them. Convict Duchowski, who had killed a Chicago policeman, broke the Warden's skull with the crowbar; others stabbed him with their scissors. One thing remained. They must help Nathan F. Leopold Jr., the boy who killed for a thrill, escape with them. "His old man has lots of cash," they said, "he will set us up." But young Leopold was padlocked in solitary confinement for stealing the prison's sugar. They could not open his cell...
Nathan Straus, 78, merchant-philanthropist: "To rouse Boston Jews into giving towards the $7,500,000 which United Palestine Appeal fund wants to collect before next June, I reminded them last week that 'the Rockefellers, both father and son, are devoting their millions to help the welfare of mankind, while a man like Henry Ford has engaged in a campaign against the Jewish people.' Then I added, 'If he submitted the facts to a committee of ten men of unimpeachable character, ministers and laymen, he would be fully convinced of the justice of my claim...