Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both the politician and the clergy, man missed the mark completely. To say that any encouragement of college men as a class to become a self-conscious group bent on leadership will result in the curtailment of legal or economic rights now enjoyed by the majority is mere demagoguery. To say that class leadership is wrong is nonsense. Already our social system is a resultant of classes clashing as classes. Banking as a class, labor as a class, politicians as a class, lawyers as a class, all are bent on control. Why not make an attempt to wake...
Perhaps the niceties of the profession are to be found nowhere to better advantage than in the function of timekeeper. Too frequent calling of the hour has a tendency to create unfortunate emotional situations in the examinees and a mere announcement as the period draws to a close that "this examination will close in five minutes" is a brutality of which every one will admit the danger...
When Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew his fiancée, Anne Spencer Morrow (now Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh), and her sisters Elizabeth and Constance, and Mrs. Morrow, from Manhattan to the Morrow summer home in Maine last fortnight, it was no mere pleasure jaunt. Before departure the trip had acquired purpose. Before the return, after four days, newsgatherers had acquired a dark story, in outline as follows: Constance
Since one man is needed, the committee is opposed to a system of guidance by a faculty committee, functioning through a secretary. Such a system would first of all impose an enormous burden on the members of the committee, since guidance, to be more than mere information-giving, must involve incessant and often apparently useless interviews. Faculty members giving such guidance would be obliged to drop nearly all their academic work. If the members of the committee were not active, the work would presumably be done by the secretary. Insofar as the secretary were permanent, accessible, and capable he would...
...course the United States government has no intention of violating the traditional sanctity of extraterritorial privileges. No rights ordinarily granted to mere congressmen would be denied to the representatives of the powers of the earth. In fact there is little fear of the United States prohibition enforcement unit even among those not native to these shores...