Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long rollcall, then is destined to be assumed but once today, and that only as a formality, the mere assurance of triumph already won. The cryptic "I do not choose" was altered just in time to "I will not", and the vague possibilities of a dark-horse third term are checked, once for all. And is it not better so? All the squirming and writhing of the politicians could mean but one thing; that, though they knew the voters' choice, they did not wish to obey it; that if holes were not already there, through which the machine men might...
...smaller ones today will mean, if it is carried to the limit, the elimination of much that is distinctive and enjoyable in university life. But so long as the educational process is not interfered with in the individual, the real contribution of the colleges is in no danger from mere increase in size...
...usual standard by which the worth of a library is determined is that of number of volumes, and in comparing mere numbers it is often lost sight of that size is but one of a library's requirements. No less important is the proper proportioning of the collection and the inclusion of old and rare works thereby made accessible to scholars. Widener Library has held for some years the title of the foremost college library and the fifth greatest in the world. As in inevitable in an restitution most of whose growth has taken place within a comparatively few years...
...Convention like a Paris mob in a French Revolution, are partisans of the McNary-Haugen bill. According to the farm dailies and the associations of stock and wheat growers, sympathy for this price-fixing measure is neither intense nor intelligent, while the Governor's call to arms is mere political chicanery. But the public confidence in the present method of choice of candidates is already so shaky, that this putative affront by over-alled bureaucracy may happily topple it. With an improved radio system relaying to a passive citizenry every shout of the peasant revolt outside the smoke filled hotel...
...experimental educators, none seems more horrible than the system devised by Mr. Holt, President of Rollins College in Florida, and described by him in the Yale News. In his charge that the present system is deplorable because "it quizzes the student instead of the professor, and makes the faculty mere receptacle." President Holt may be justified. But it's tenitive is a bolus hard to ewallow. At Rollins the student has an eight hour working day, and Is made to live up to it." In four two-hour periods under the galdance of an instructor he studies or discusses...