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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undertaken, it was made quite clear that if a rum launch would not stop when warned, every attempt would be made to blow it out of the water. Thus rum running became something more than risking a doubtful fine or a short imprisonment-it came to mean the risk of life...
...points to consider on both sides. The conservative element, if we waive any apprehensions of the undergraduates' tendency to "ride," through colleges, has more to justify the plan of adherence to specific requirements than has the vociferous liberal's plea for selection. In the first place, the degree must mean something. We don't want candidates at graduation presented with a medal for "spending" four years in college. Nor do we want them lop-sided brain specimens...
...loud chorus of What's Wrong With U. S. Education? was swelled last week, by the voice of Dr. Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University: "Overspecialization. . . . I mean spending so much time on the mechanics of steam engines that we have no time left for studying the mechanics of life. . . . It breaks the country up into different groups. Each group has an absolutely different point of view. They fail to understand each other. This creates animosity and ill will. It is said that if the Germans had not devoted all their time and energy before the War to specialization...
...remotest ends of the earth, and the supreme purpose of every man seems to be to make a noise in his own peculiar way. I have always been under the impression, my dear Usbek, that education meant preparation, taken in its broadest sense. But here it seems to mean accomplishment, such as that is understood. These Satellites all want to draw the eyes of their fellows upon themselves, and if they fall, they think their education is a failure. They crave applause, and grant it too, upon the most extraordinary conditions...
...story by Reporter Jack De Witt of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil, began: ''There's a lot of good fellows on the road nowadays, seems like we're getting a better class of hoboes, if you know what I mean.' It was a railroad man speaking. The Burlington railroad yards were hideous with noises of the night, hissing of steam and dull clanging of bells...