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...sure, we have no courses labelled "To-day's News 6a hf," nor even "Current Events 32b hf." But this fact should not mislead. Not only in Sociology and Economics but in practically all departments are courses which the teacher makes fairly brim over with the spirit of true "modernity" and human interest. And, after all, Paleontology and Sanscrit with this spirit are less "past" than "Aeroplaning Q" without...
...entitled to nothing that he does not earn by earnest, honest, efficient work. President Taft is not entitled to renomination. Those who charge Roosevelt with disloyalty are ignorant of the facts or wish to mislead the people. Roosevelt was never truer to his ideals and duties as a citizen than when he accepted the call to leadership in this struggle for political progress...
...Lampoon, the moral of which was that we should all cheat did we not cower before threatened rustication. The tone of the paper is of course not serious, but such a treatment of the subject even in mocking vein is to be avoided as dangerous and apt to mislead. Were such a sentiment prevalent, we have no doubt that cheating would tend to become more instead of less common...
...politics the terse campaign cry, the long campaign parade, and the eloquent speakers are all used to mislead people by numbers and effects. In advertising, numbers and bigness are used to convince people of excellence. Often our sense of humor instead of our reason is appealed to by advertisers, salesmen, and speakers...
...result of all these devices to mislead us depends on the fact that they suggest vividly those things which we wish to believe...