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Many things can be cited, however, to condone this failing. A stock expression of faculty members is this, "Student activities are at least 50 percent of a college education if not more". But do they give 50 percent consideration for such work? A student who had committed the hideous offense of nodding in class was ordered by the broad-mined instructor to explain. When told that in was due to outside work the instructor replied. "Well, if you cannot carry that and stay awake in class, drop the activities". They lack the courage of their convictions, to say the least...
...step in harmony with Mr. Hood's wise words? To discharge workers because of their radical tendencies does not seem to be the proper method of meeting the situation. These radical organizations have recruited their ranks largely from unskilled laborers who are discontented with the present order because of hideous working conditions, because they are forced to be homeless and wifeless. Does not such a procedure only add fuel to the flame...
...suffer it by breeding a spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in those young people who constantly witness barbarities unpunished and uncondensed. It blots our fair fame as a nation, for we cannot claim to be civilized until our laws are respected and enforced and our citizens secured against the hideous cruelties of which we are constantly furnishing fresh examples...
...several decades we have plodded placidly along, pointing aimiably to our superior education that teaches the young, the old, the rich, the poor alike and reduces ignorance in the lower classes to a smaller proportion than in any European country. Now the veil is rent and we see a hideous condition of things; and at the same time there appears the root of a number of evils...
...word of every one with whom we were obliged to deal in the course of the day, human affairs would be paralyzed. The only way the world can go on is on the assumption that people around us are telling the truth. And it is because of the hideous inconvenience and uncertainty he occasions that the whole world detests a liar...