Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the average young man going into politics will be condemned to a certain extent to the same delays and disappointments that will attend him going into business or professional life. He will not be able to impress his personality immediately on great numbers of experienced men; he will not be able to achieve the millenium in a minute; he will have a hard time making even desirable changes. It will be slow work. Anybody can sit at a desk and create Utopias ad lib. We must remember that the law stating that momentum equals mass times velocity applies...
Such unwarranted favoritism must impress those Phi Beta Kappa men to whom the principle of equal opportunity appeals with the feeling that disparity of this kind is both gross and unfair. Surely, they say, an intellectual society ought not to be subjugated to such humiliation nor be so undervalued. Fortunately, as the hero of this incident points out, for every problem there is a solution. In order that Phi Beta Kappa may enjoy equally with other organizations the respect of the law, let the first forty policemen of every city be elected to membership. Immediately a brotherly affection will spring...
...daily. They are the sort conducted by religions seets, professional associations, and labor organizations. No real business is settled at such meetings; all policies being determined in advance, the delegates merely voting on them frequently they seem to be called chiefly to please the vanity of the delegate and impress him with the magnitude of his organization...
...state papers written by Roosevelt and books written about him, together with hunting trophies and other material relating to him, should be kept in the reading room, with the hope that this room "would be resorted to by all who wished to know or write about him", and would impress the student body "with the full significance of a life with which they might otherwise have only it casual acquaintance...
Definitely, the ideal of the college is not to make Americans or semi-Americans, but to train native leaders for the country of their birth. Therefore, instead of attempting to segregate students and impress them with foreign ideals, they are left in contact with their normal environment so that there may be a continual interplay and progressive and natural adjustment between new truth and the old life. The college is content to introduce germinal ideas, expecting them to become dynamic in natural, indigenous ways. It would be of little benefit to Turkey to turn out emigrants to America, men whose...