Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favored nation on the globe, but it is well to remember that the confidence and prosperity which we enjoy can be shattered, if not destroyed, if this belief in the honesty and sincerity of our government is in any way affected. A continuation of this great public peace of mind now existing, which makes for our material well being, is only possible by holding fast to the plans and principles which have marked Republican control...
...date of the Norman invasion or the French irregular verbs fixed in his mind when a bare-kneed cutie, all scented up with Black Narcissus, is sitting just across the aisle? No one without the sales resistance of a Galahad...
...responsibility of the actual task of imparting learning in order to devote more time to meticulously unravelling the unnecessary, the professors will have brought this education to the level of a puppet show. The college needs men who realize that teaching is a task requiring coordination of body, mind, and soul in actual labor,--a task, demanding inspiring personality, for which reading systems and so called self educational methods are poor substitutes. If the college stands primarily for education, let the college promote education by encouraging and insisting upon more inspiring teaching...
...always been to lag in learning. That consolation can now be either substantiated, or blown away as a false and flattering unction to which no man nor society of men would care to be indebted. For many a year Cambridge has sneered at the vagueness of the Oxford mind, and Oxford at the petty particularity of the Cambridge mind: there must be learned men in the Universities of London, Birmingham and other great towns who could pit the two fairly against each other and declare a just result. English literature, of course, would not be the only match. There...
...successfully links them together by the social medium. Comparisons appear particularly odious here, but at no time during the college year are the two almost diametrically opposite sides placed in a more revealing juxtaposition and permitted to illustrate more admirably the fluctuation in the universal graduate and undergraduate mind. For, while there are some whose interest in the awarding of the degrees excludes the expenditure of any sentiment over the outcome of the boat race and others whose mania for a crimson victory on the Thames blinds them to the significance of the honors percentage. It is safe...