Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sometimes physical, freedom? The author thinks it has not, and, in this case at any rate, proves her point with niceness. True, she takes an exceptionally strong example with which to work. The founders of this country, she points out, were rebels, and many of them fugitives from the iron laws of their homelands. Now that we are free and prosperous and, above all, conventionalized, should we forget what is due those who are attempting to emulate our example? Even a Hindu from India, the play shows, has a moral right to plead for the liberty of that Empire...
...anyone could so completely miss the point of your editorial on "The Iron Man", as did Mr. Seaver in his communication of the 16th, is a mystery to me. Not having "been to busy furthering civilization to give much thought to it", I find the ideas you there advanced rather compelling, as would anyone who did not read it with "a chip on his shoulder". The CRIMSON, I take it, did not "pass judgement" on anyone. It merely tried to point out that the Age of Machinery has brought with it fewer hours of labor--for the student as well...
There is that in your editorial "The Iron Man" which smacks of the hypocrite, the pharisee who always knows what is best for his brother. There is that which might well solicit from the working youth an uncultured guffaw or a contemptuous snort according to the condition of his uneducated liver...
...leading article in a recent number of the "Atlantic", under the title of "The Iron Man", proposes a very plausible solution to the problem. Briefly, the author's idea is this: unless these young men are taught to use their leisure properly, they are dangerous to society. Educate them, then, for leisure. At present the elementary schools fail to do this. They educate, rather, for work. They make but slight attempt to impart to their students a love of art, literature, or music or a knowledge of science, philosophy or economics. The author urges, therefore, that many subjects hitherto known...
...physiology, he must know how to deal with the varying temperaments of his varying patients; the teacher must know more than his subject, he must know the minds of his pupils, for a Ph.D., does not suffice to make a successful teacher; the engineer must know more than iron and steel and how to handle them, he must also know how to handle Irishmen and Italians and Hungarians...