Word: homesick
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That subject of perennial attack, the American educational system, is assailed anew in a series of articles in the current New Republic, entitled "Adult Education", with a zeal so Menckenesque that it seems almost homesick away from the more familiar pages of the Mercury. Witness this description of the sad fate of the products of the present system: "Most Americans seem to have reached mental old age at the age of thirty. They reflect in stereotypes; they converse in slogans; their thinking is reiteration, and their action consequently--violence." The remedy, say these critics, lies in continuing the educational process...
...aboard. Three minute's before the gangplank was drawn, he marched briskly up it. Not so Vice President Dawes. He could not go. Standing on the bridge of an official cutter, he said: "It make's me homesick to see them go without...
Senator McMaster failed to see the President on the first day of his arrival at Rapid City, because the President was visiting a Government Indian school (where he asked the Superintendent if the little Indian girls did not get homesick sometimes). The next day, however, the Senator asked the President to call on some of the South Dakotan cities in the eastern part of the state and the President took the invitation under consideration...
...exactly a good influence. You see, I was very young and homesick and I wrote very sad things. Boston was a very vibrant city then; it had its influence upon me naturally...
...Harvard: "It was announced last week that I had resigned from the Harvard faculty, to prepare myself for Roman Catholic priesthood." Sinclair Lewis, author: "In London I said: 'I have finished a book. I have been working hard for a year and all the time I have been homesick for England. For the last eleven years the longest time I have stayed in one place was eight months and that was when I was in London. I cannot keep still. If I stay like this my grandchildren will be tying me to a tree in the back yard...