Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last April when President Roosevelt appointed Robert Hayes Gore to be Governor of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican politicos did their best to find out who he was. Unlike their then Governor ,Republican James Rumsey Beverley, he had never lived in Puerto Rico. Unlike young Theodore Roosevelt who had preceded Governor...
Five feet three inches high, weighing nearly 125 lb., a man who dislikes tobacco, is indifferent to good clothes and almost as indifferent to statistics, he is a trader with a cold eye for a market profit. Totally lacking in the flush speculator's flair for spending but showing...
Rhodes's Results. Some Oxford men have long regarded Rhodesmen as disagreeable blighters, scarcely fit even for one another's depressing company. Gentler observers reflect that Oxford does not represent all of England. Its young men are mostly of the gentry. And British gentry are alien to youths...
The chief object of criticism, however, is the undergraduate himself. The leading editorial heaps scorn upon the "indifferent," the "deb-chasers," and the "grade-grubbers," while special articles expose the short-comings of the "final" club men and the Phi Beta Kappa. The case of the "final" club men seems...
The real evil in this deception is that the student carrying more than one scientific course finds his laboratory periods in hopeless conflict. The Chemistry which the catalogue guaranteed could be done on Monday afternoon, has to be carried over to Tuesday, which is, according to schedule, reserved for Botany...