Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes its biggest gains in an atmosphere of free discussion, and that it is certainly getting now. As a member of one of the governing boards said to me the other day: "These digs from the graduates may not be precisely enjoyable, but they keep us up to the mark. And we mustn't forget this; a university with which all the alumni were perfectly satisfied would be a dead...
...There are three kinds of lies," said Mark Twain, "plain lies, damn lies, and statistics." When the New York Times editorial, quoted in an adjacent column, shows by repeated examples that college graduates do not furnish nine out of every ten leaders in society, it is not to be inferred that this excellent journal has gone over to the opposition. It is safe to hazard the guess that if the New York Times had a son, it would send him to college. What the Times does assert is that Mr. Albert E. Wiggam has played with his figures...
...Rockefeller, Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford and Orville Wright might conceivably exercise a more far-reaching influence on economic development in America than four hundred minor "leaders" in business. Two non-college scientists like John Burroughs and Luther Burbank may outweigh how many scientific students of lesser rank? Mark Twain and Walt Whitman should count for something more than their absolute numerical ratio. And in the field of polities it is conceivable that Abraham Lincoln may counterbalance several thousand college-bred members of Congress. We face the old anti-eugenic doubt arising from the considerable role played in the history...
...rates on Canadian and Argentinian wheat shipped to Europe was above the price in the United States. Wheat shortages in Europe have been drawing surplus crops from the rest of the world. If the European crops are heavy next fall, the American price will recede from the present high mark. The explanation of these fluctuations is due to economic factors...
This year, for the first time, a limit of 2,000 was put on the membership of the Union after the unexpectedly high mark of 1936 was reached last year. As a result of this limit a good many men were turned away from the club. The limit was placed primarily because of the limited facilities afforded by the Union Dining Room...