Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). And since then his success as Governor of Tripoli, and later as Finance Minister, has endeared him greatly to the House of Savoy and set him high in Fascist councils. Such was the suave oval-faced Italian, with level brows and a scrubby Van Dyck beard, who set sail with his Countess to talk of Italian debts upon an Italian-discovered continent...
...healthy progress in American life, surely here is a mark of decadence. The thesis which George Jean Nathan presented not long ago in one of his more thoughtful moments may possibly be correct. Although American taste in the self-styled aristocracy of brains has never been at a higher level, his theory is, taste among the masses steadily exhibits the opposite tendency. One has only to glance over the periodicals on the nearest magazine stand, to appreciate the very considerable truth of this statement. Such a glance certainly could not leave the observers with any very favorable impression...
...explain this American shortcoming. Europe stressing social classes permits fewer men to call themselves educated while America educates the mass and not a class. It is the very essays of the American educational experiment that a vast number of students should be raised as a whole to a common level of intelligence...
...Professor Kennedy's opinion that "the profession of coaching must be elevated and dignified. It must be done by men of the right type, men who have adopted the profession seriously and permanently and who will lift it by their personal influence and example to the level of intelligence and idealism it is capable of maintaining...
...technically the most human course in college, the way it is taught deserves no such high praise. Not that it is inhuman at all, for Anthropology 1 is one of the mediocre courses which are at once the curse of the University and the backbone of its moderately high level of instruction...