Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior could profit by an expansion of interest in his Senior year it never before. College for the first time begins to mean something to him in broad perspective. Perspective of any sort is a real accomplishment. Usually your young man has to wait until he gets out of college to begin to see the thing clear and to see it whole. Probably this is the aim of our educators, although it is sadly unwise. And so what boots it anyhow to have anticipated this intellectual robustness in his Senior year? He must suffer the division of tastes and tasks...
...begun to get them, numerous additions to a pitiful handful, young men from Harvard. Yale, and Princeton, who have very apparent ability. That ability of theirs is four parts flair for the theatre, perhaps, but it is six parts intelligence, and intelligence may be cultivated. It would mean the stage millenium if it might be given the actor, or its lack revealed to him in a school before he makes one more in the stage struck multitude...
Whose Right to Oust? It seems strange that a country should live and grow under a great ordinance for more than a century and a quarter and at the end of that time not be sure what parts of that ordinance mean. Yet such is the case of the U. S. For example, in the case of amendments to the Constitution. That document says that amendments be- come effective when adopted by Congress and "ratified by three-fourths of the States." Apparently rejection does not count; only ratification. But suppose that a state ratifies and then reverses itself?either before...
...hardly vital to discuss "probation" (as does the editorial), and in the other just surprise yourself by counting the number of blue eyes in a chance gathering of 25 and compare the result with a similar count in some other chance group. Of course this doesn't mean that they will be found in the ratio of exacty "one in five," though it may help to console some who are on "the danger line." Respectfully, Philip Walker...
...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 and got the answer he wanted, but, like Goldberg's famous Bughouse Fables, they don't mean anything...