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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus that the elective system was born. I mean the elective system as a really popular movement. I am aware, of course, that the idea of the elective system was in existence at William and Mary College as a deliberate educational theory, although but little developed in practice, nearly half a century before its adoption at Harvard, and many years before it became generally the basis of what seems to me to have been essentially a strategic retreat of educators from an increasingly unmanageable mass of modern knowledge. Looked at historically, I think the hay-field episode is an accurate...
...would like to see the time when business writes a charter of American business freedom, a bill of rights of its own, to protect itself both from government and from some of its own temptations. ... If we mean anything by liberty and equality of opportunity, we mean not only that business must be free from undue interference and oppression by the government, but also that it must be free from undue entangling alliances with the government. ... If you complain of too much government in business, I answer that the solution is twofold: put more business into government and more self...
...very word "disarmament" has no meaning for purposes of international negotiation until defined. Does it mean, as "French logic" demands, that in order to "disarm" a nation you must do something about "peaceful dye factories" capable of being converted to produce poison gas in a few hours? Does it mean, as "British common sense" insists, that "practically" it is not possible to "disarm" a nation further than by scrapping its submarines, airplanes, guns...
...various delicately incisive roles. Strangely enough even the epigrams seem to have survived sturdily-"The truth is rarely pure and never simple"-"Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others"-"Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel quite certain they mean something else."-"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone"-"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train...
...affairs came to pass today we should say, "Ah, an eclipse." British astronomers have, according to despatches last week, determined that the only total solar eclipse visible from Ithaca, home of Ulysses, during the first quarter of the 12th Century B. C., occurred at 11:41 a.m. local mean time, April 16, 1177 B. C. From this deduction the Trojan War was dated 1197 to 1187 B. C.; Ulysses' wanderings...