Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sounds fine," said an undergraduate; "self-sacrifice and all that. They started something like that down at Princeton, didn't they? But you know America is a free country. By the way," he added, "we're going to break up a meeting tonight. Come with...
...terror in Russia has ceased. It ceased six months ago. All the energy of the government has turned to constructive work; the better element is coming to the front. To these facts testify abundantly men recently returned from Russia: journalists like Frazier Hunt, Robert Minor, and Isaac Don Levine, relief workers like Wilfred Humphries of the American Red Cross, military envoys like Captain Sadoul, and government emissaries and agents like William Bullitt and Raymond Robbins. All these men are opposed to intervention in Russia; Herbert Asquith is opposed to it; Mr. President, after your early utterances...
...article shows a keen insight into one of the greatest weaknesses of the college system. The habits of study a boy forms in school determine very largely his habits of study in college and after. A test like the entrance examination eliminates many of the fit and not all of the unfit. The uniformity acquired by such a system makes it easier for the college, no doubt. But what the manager gains by a "system" the managed lose; and their loss is the loss of the community...
...white. The more fortunate youths go to tutoring schools where they learn by heart answers to probable questions. In what way does this differ from a parrot learning the alphabet? Those of us who spent four years in acquiring the "canned education" necessary for admission to college would like to see the men coming on now in school have something in their mind's eye besides the examination paper. Let the college examine if it will, but on a saner basis. Instead of finding out whether or not a man has read so many books of Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil...
...position of our committee is that taken by General Ian Smuts, member of the British Peace Commission at Paris and Prime Minister of the South African Republic, in his farewell address to the British people; 'Leave Russia alone, remove the blockade, adopt a policy of Gallio-like impartiality to all factions.' This is exactly where we stand; we believe that the only part we should take in Russia's affairs is relief work, such as Mr. Hoover did in Belgium...