Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place", President Angell continued, "It does not mean that the University never intends to admit more than this number into its first-year class, but it definitely does mean that the University will at no time receive more students than it believes can be cared for properly with assurance of satisfactory instruction and adequate living facilities." President Angell said that in the second place candidates for enrollment would be considered primarily on the basis of scholarship, but that character and personality would also be taken into account, as usual, and in the third place that the present action...
...have frequently been questioned," he continued, "as to whether auto-suggestion should replace religion, and my reply is in the negative. By this I do not mean that religion is essential to success in this treatment because it is not. The only real connection between religion and auto-suggestion lies in the fact that both require faith for success. To combine the two is perfectly possible, and a reconciliation between them is certainly not difficult to effect...
...Allegiance to the Palestinian movement on the part of the Jews does not mean that they give up their allegiance to the country in which they live", said Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, in his speech to the Menorah Society yesterday afternoon. Rabbi Wise is perhaps the foremost member of the Jewish religious order in this country, and extremely prominent in promoting the Zionist movement...
Most Americans fail to realize what a serious bearing this European bankruptcy has for ourselves; such a collapse would mean a general panic in which thousands of business firms would be ruined. It therefore behooves all of us to prepare for trouble...
Seventeen, then, is the age which President Lowell desires as an average at entrance, rather than the present figure of eighteen or nineteen. The examinations as now prepared are not above the capacity of "any youth of ordinary ability." This would mean, correspondingly, that a fairly large number endowed with more than that ordinary ability, would be entering each year at sixteen and fifteen, while several (the present fifteen-year-olds) would come at fourteen or under. Unfortunately, the examinations test only mental development; they offer no estimate of character or physique, and it is already plain to be seen...