Word: like
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Plato despised the Sophists, who taught for pay, but the 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...
...this is perfectly definite action and something like it will probably be done in time. The point is that now is the time to deal with Bolshevism while it is spreading and developing its powers of evil. Next year or next month may be too late...
...triumphs that President Wilson has won at the Paris Conference are due wholly to the appeal that his program has made to the imagination of the great mass of the people of Europe. Statesmen are following him not because they like him personally but because their people are following him and because they know that if they reject the Wilson program they have nothing to substitute for it that can satisfy public sentiment. It is their one bulwark against the Anarchistic flood...
...advantage" if we seek in "peptonised information" for the "detailed facts which insure success in life." Education has been defined in two ways: "Individual effort," and secondly, "placing students so that they cannot resist instruction." The choice of the better of these is not hard to make. I should like to see a detailed list of your philosopher-stone-like facts, but at all events, remind your readers from time to time that primarily we come to college for a single, simple purpose--to make our minds ready tools. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT...
...current issue of the Lampoon it is difficult to favor one morsel over another. Great credit must be accorded the artist whose creation decorates the cover. One man at present faces the world, and like all those who face the footlights, he must also face the music. In the Lampoon the strains are gentle and pleasing, without "Life's" harshness; yet they have a penetrating power peculiar to their composers, as in the case of his Excellency with one foot on the rail...