Word: insistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service and not alone for profits. Wage-earners aspire to be something more than numbers on the books of an industrial plant, something more than attendants of a machine, something more than cogs in an industrial system dominated by machinery owned and operated for profit alone. The workers insist upon being masters of themselves. Labor understands fully that powerful interests today are determined to achieve reaction in industry if possible. They seek to disband or cripple the organizations of workers. They seek to reduce wages and thus reduce the standard of living. They seek to keep free from restriction their...
Among the public institutions that have been receiving the benefit of the critical spirit of this decade is the college. Radical organs fill their editorial pages with denunciations of "this stronghold of capitalism" and insist that American educators have given their freedom in exchange for pitiful salaries and are but "the tools of the ruling class." On the other hand, reactionaries are as loud in their accusations that the colleges are the strongholds of menacing economic theories and are "full of parlor-bolshevists...
Despite the wide divergence in their demands, the radical and the reactionary desire the same thing. They insist that the teacher become a propagandist and that the college become a school for a particular theory. Time was when such schools existed and students traveled from one to the other to get a universal point of view. They were the schools of Greece and of the middle Ages. We flatter ourselves that we have advanced in many thing, among them--education. But it is beside the point to question whether this is a better or worse system. The fact remains that...
...ever mindful of the fallibility of the familiar. It must teach us that simply because we are accustomed to social conceptions, we ought not to be unwilling to constantly test and question these theories to see if they stand the ultimate test of permanent serviceability. The University, therefore, must insist on tolerance and sober discussion; must fight against omniscience and arrogance...
...House Ways and Means Committee, "is as liberal treatment as is consistent with the welfare of the country," and he went on to declare that the great majority of the men who served in the war want no bonus at the expense of the public good, but they do insist that relief legislation be passed to insure that disabled men will no longer be objects of charity...