Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contrast with the great use made of the advisory body in the fall, only a handful of Freshmen last year turned to the committee for aid in electing a field of concentration. That this slight interest from the advisees justifies the amount of time spent by the committee in keeping office hours is extremely doubtful. By spring the Freshmen are acclimated to the situation and are well equipped to secure information on the question of concentration...
...depend upon these authorities for recognition) is doubtful to me. It might with more justification be maintained that they bring about a rigid bureaucratization of the social strata, which elsewhere are left more or less to their own council and initiative. To some extent this tendency to governmentalize the 'interest groups' is to be found in all modern states. But what the Italian experiment of forcing this development for purposes of general representation certainly does bring about is a rather complete elimination of parliamentary processes. For such organizations, resting upon the interest groups, effectively thwarts the organization of political parties...
...must be sheltering both from the family disgrace that would follow upon the revelation of the truth. But, regardless of the loss to his own reputation for discernment, has Mr. Sedgwick the right to maintain this attitude of chivalrous protection in a historic matter of such profound national interest...
...would hardly have allowed her husband, Frederick Hirth, the Union soldier, when the two friends, as alleged, gave him the documents, to accept them as genuine. Neither would she, after her husband's death, have thought them worth treasuring until her own death, nor would she have had any interest in passing them on her niece, the mother of Miss Minor, as genuine documents. Therefore, unless the earlier existence of the documents can be clearly proved, the only two people whom we need consider as their source are Miss Minor's mother and Miss Minor herself...
...must be sheltering both from the family disgrace that would follow upon the revelation of the truth. But, regardless of the loss to his own reputation for discernment, has Mr. Sedgwick the right to maintain this attitude of chivalrous protection in a historic matter of such profound national interest...