Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better!" will be the answer of those to whom mere size is the most important factor. This attitude would make sense if there were any reason for believing that the masses of Americans could rise to the high level of education which in other countries is reserved for a fraction of our number. But, as Dean Gauss points out, the average intelligence of the American youth is hardly likely to be higher than that of the Briton or Frenchman...
...small colleges of the East, a movement is now on to stiffen the requirements for admission. Throughout the West there is the inclination toward a return to discipline and an abandonment of the "cafeteria" plan of education established by President Eliot. America has the choice of giving up mere mass-production in education or suffering the lowered standards which such a system makes inevitable...
...recent election to fill next year's executive posts of Phillips Brooks House leaves the gate open for a critical appraisal of the usefulness of the president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer. There is reasonable justification for believing that the positions may be mere rewards for past services to the House; but no undergraduate position of such weight and value as the P.B.H. posts can be sinecures even for fagged veteran volunteers. The three men elected to the management of P.B.H. should be charged with duties equal to the size and volume of their post; they ought to control...
...That the President, by apparently abandoning his original arguments for Court reform, had now confessed that they were a mere disguise. The man who four months ago was Republican nominee for Vice President was last week so wrought up by Mr. Roosevelt's change of tactics that he wrote and signed an editorial in his Chicago Daily News which expressed the peak of Republican apprehension. Excerpts...
...moved to have Daughter Jessica made a ward in chancery so that it would have been a crime for any Englishman to marry her without the consent of the High Court, Esmond and Jessica coolly announced that that was all right with them, "as what is marriage but a mere convention?" A British consular official was sent after the couple, instructed to "marry them if necessary, but at all events to bring them home...