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...worst, no one of the famous "Fathers" can be so misunderstood in the present as he was by his opponents in his own time. History and biography, incorrect, partial, prejudiced as they may be, are the invisible and inutile Truth compared with the illusions and delusions, the frantically swallowed calumnies and legends and lies that are the average contemporary judgment, by his adversaries, of a public man. New documents, new lights are often accessible to posterity, which ought to be able to contemplate with a calmer eye those old animosities. Why shouldn't the men before 1800 be painted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 10/25/1922 | See Source »

Materialistic Theories Incorrect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. S. SEELEY DECLARES ALL EVIL IS UNREAL | 3/29/1921 | See Source »

...little word "snobs" is getting to be as much misused as "socialist" or "liberal", and probably due to the fact that it has become a regular buffet-epithet in word wrangles. It remains, then, to clear away superfluous and incorrect meaning; and also to exonerate this often maligned college from any notorious connection with the term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SNOBS | 3/14/1921 | See Source »

...Tobin should be commended for this wise assertion. By merely indorsing these two phrases (decreed incorrect by arbitrary standards) the citizens of the United States may claim great credit for themselves for their considerable advance toward perfect expression in language. Moreover, professors and literati, who have hitherto gazed haughtily down upon the rabble from the rarified heights of correct speech, would suffer a righteous degradation. Yet it is never too late to learn, and these latter might in time master the new idiom. It would certainly be amusing to hear the ingenuous members of English A rebuked for using...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SENSIBLE REFORM | 2/24/1921 | See Source »

...Service Bureau was organized in 1915 as the result of experience in work of the kind, which had proved very successful wherever applied. It was founded in the belief that there were a large number of students in the University who, on account of faulty preparation, retarded development, or incorrect methods of study, were not reaping the full benefits of the scholastic work of the College, and who, if they were given needed advice or aid for a time, would be put on their feet so that they could help themselves in the future. The Bureau, in other words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA TO RESUME SCHOLARSHIP AID SERVICE | 1/21/1921 | See Source »

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