Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conception of "the world as history" is bound of prove disappointing both educationally and as a means of living. In scholarship its breadth of scope enforces uniformity and superficiality: not the obvious superficiality of the flashy generalization, but the superficiality of mere learning. Information rather than understanding tends to become the aim of the historical approach, for information alone can be coldly uniformly catalogued. Neither does the past contain the key to the future or the plan of the present, for, perversely, the more it is studied the less it shows. History when glimpsed hastily or through a mirage presents...
...Harvard's less exclusive clubs is the Harvard Cooperative Society. In former days, that ancient and rather misinterpreted tradition of the Society, the Dividend, gave the organization a solidarity which dues-paying members of swankier clubs rarely felt. Nowadays the callow student regards his $1.76 annual salary as a mere wage for the trouble of eternal searching through his pockets for a coop card...
...later vote for the franchise to be granted. "Actions," taunted Candidate LaGuardia, "speak louder than words." At this point Samuel Seabury, patron saint of Fusion, chimed in: "They're mak-ing a primary out of an election. Fusion nominated a ticket so good and so strong that its mere nominations caused the Curry machine to crumble and broke Tammany's back. What happened then? They changed the name of the Tammany candidate from O'Brien to McKee." "Judge Seabury seems to think that he has the corner on virtue and probity in this city," snorted Candidate McKee...
...region and hopes to have a finger in the final settlement, peaceful or otherwise. Apart from the Anti-War Pact, by which Argentina and Brazil led South America a long step on the road to peace, the other nine "treaties" signed by Presidents Justo and Vargas, some of them mere agreements, served to adjust local issues between the A & B countries and stimulate their trade. Among other things the two Presidents abolished mutual visa charges and tourist taxes, provided for an annual Brazilian Exposition in Argentina, an Argentine Exposition in Brazil. Finally the A & B countries agreed to revise their...
...conclusion to be drawn is that the fraternity system is passing. Taxes have grown more heavy; the revenue from rich alumni has diminished. The Greeks must either become so exclusive as to be a negligible clique, or they must, as already in several large middlewestern universities, turn themselves into mere dormitories open to all. The current depression aided by such awkward schisms as that now opening at Dartmouth, will do much to hurry the transition...