Word: less
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conditions Plato dealt with were not like those of today. Nowadays teachers are not isolated individuals who roam the streets offering their learning for what they can get. They are members of institutions and it is the privilege of these as such to undertake nothing less than the decent support of their teachers...
...University whose advantages he simply prevents someone else from obtaining. The win-the-war need for moral effort is past, but the need for moral effort exists as strongly as before. The student who merely aims to "get by" is a slacker in times of peace no less than in times...
...Furthermore, in my opinion, however paradoxical it may seem, the broader or less 'specialized' the college education, the better is the man fitted for his great specialization--his life work., I firmly believe that the chief part of the educational reconstruction will be that the college graduate of twenty-one or two will come to realize that he is not too old to pursue his studies further (in the law school, for instance, or the graduate school of business, or the technical school,) because he will understand that the longest way around is, in this case, the shortest way home...
...jokes. To prove the justice of his complaint Lampy, to the gratification of his many faithful readers, proceeds to give an idea of what he means by modern wit. Classicism may be very well in literature, but in the realm of humor, the modern commuter prefers something smacking less of Adam and the fig leaf. His efforts easily outrank former issues and vie with that masterpiece of 1918, the Graduates Number. We are told that poetry is that art dealing with the emotion through the imagination. In that case Lampy's reputation as a bard is firmly established...
...very early days of the war, Dean Edwin F. Gay of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, recognizing the inevitability of more or less price-fixing during the public emergency which the country confronted, at the same time called attention to the very serious complications which were likely to follow as a result of it. Of a truth, the likelihood which he then foresaw has since been translated into the realm of actuality. We refer not alone to the many difficulties which price-fixing encountered by the way while the war was still on, but more especially...