Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of articles entitled, "The Crisis in American Colleges." Thus a muddled situation is resolving itself into an inchoate philosophy of higher education. What is needed is a systematic philosopher to make an exposition of the subject as a basis for future discussion, and to remove from the public mind the confusion invoked by declarations that the ideal liberal education should be of no practical value...
Moreover, Prince Ras Taffari is of a turn of mind no less inquiring than Rasselas.† He would, guessed travelers, desire as envoy from any other state, a representative of that state's dominant race. Ras Taffari would want to learn about China from a Chinaman, not a white man; about India from a Hindu, not an Anglo-Saxon; about the U. S. from a Caucasian, not a Negro...
...this point the Munson Steamship line offered to transport the mummies to Plymouth free of charge, if they didn't mind riding with a cargo of hemp. At the quay in Plymouth the United States Custom officers demanded itemized and minute descriptions of all the cargo. Here was another puzzle. The mummies had forgotten their names...
...said to take on a greater significance. Yearly the university and college daily is assuming a more vital position in the life of the institution and of the undergraduate. With its greater responsibility and influence it needs a distinctive type of man, a man with a trained systematic mind capable of embracing and understanding every phase of faculty and student interest and activity, a certain amount of initiative, scholastic ability, and the pessimism which comes only after a long attempt to please the public. Such men might be born, but in the newspapers field they are more often made...
...with amazing rapidity, almost, it might be said, with alacrity. Did she mean the champagne? Impossible--she had had only one glass--her first, the Vagabond could have sworn. No, decidedly, she couldn't mean the champagne. Some rejoinder was necessary. The Vagabond searched his cataloguic, almost encyclopedeaic mind for the things of the world that are free. Free speech--bad in a democratic country. Free press--even the tabloids cost, or retail at, two cents. Free lunch--scarcely to be classed among the best things of this mortal sphere. Free love--ah! was this a hint? Did the fair...