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...from mechanical examinations on fact. The average student, through not exempt from the preliminary examinations, will in the final oral quiz have to show the same intelligent grasp of first principles. Both the superior and the average student will profit by the removal from graduate work of the incubus of men of sub-normal intelligence. The changes will make the degree of Ph.D. in Sociology mean intelligence rather than mere encyclopaedic knowledge and will enable the department to test much better that intelligence...
...generation after the Civil War the Grand Army of the Republic was an incubus on national politics. It waved the "bloody shirt" from every crossroads stump. It packed Congress with its mem bers. It put Generals Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison into the White House. It dictated legislation on pensions until the public cried loudly out in protest. Only with the coming of the 20th Century did Death down the G. A. R. as a political influence...
...Conference failed, wheat men were conscious that the world's wheat elevators are bulging with last year's surplus and that out of the earth was already springing another monster crop, another incubus. Too discouraged to tear their hair, Chicago wheat pit traders estimated quietly last week that North America will close 1931 with a surplus of one billion bushels-beyond all comparison the all-time record...
Through two planting seasons the Farm Board has campaigned against the surplus incubus, not only by Legge shows but by circulars to farmers, advertisements in the rural Press, harangues over the radio. Last week James Clifton Stone, new chairman of the Federal Farm Board, made his first excursion to the midWest to continue the "Legge shows," shout again the gospel of crop reduction. He addressed wheat co-operatives in Hutchinson, Kan. and Enid, Okla. As best he could he reiterated Mr. Legge's arguments, used the same threats, the same prayers...
...from the pulpit something solid and of enduring value. It has sought to free itself from the clutches of pure sentimentality and heroics. And now the new decade is destined to build a finer educational and ethical structure upon the sturdy foundations from which has been removed the incubus of the inglorious edifice inherited from our elders. The destructive criticism of the decadent naturalists is ceding to the constructive enthusiasm of more enlightened men undepressed by the post-war failure of idealism...