Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good old-fashioned education" hi Paterson public schools (one of his masters used to beat his hand with a strap until blood ran). Says Dr. Butler: "The present-day notion, that an infant must be permitted and encouraged to explore the universe for himself . . . had, fortunately, not yet raised its preposterous head. In my time children were really educated." Dr. Butler ruefully records that he stood third in his high-school graduating class, below a grocer's daughter and a contractor...
...quality for the course, which begins on Monday, October 2, and which will include 72 hours of ground training and 25 to 50 hours in the air, undergraduate and graduate students must meet the following requirements...
...necessary application forms, two in number, can be obtained at any Dean's office, and at Pierce Hall, Room 108. Signed statements of permission from parents or guardians must be filed by Saturday, October...
...must be remembered that this war is not only a war of arms; it is also a war of cultures. From the democracies' viewpoint, this war is a war to preserve existing cultures and standards of values. Thus the greatest emphasis possible in the post-war period will be placed upon culture, and the value to society of a truly cultured man, a man versed in the search for real truth, will be greatly increased. In the near future the world will need as many artists as economists, as many writers as social technicians...
Although the war in Europe has placed a burden upon the present college generation--especially upon the freshmen--we must not allow it to crush us to the earth. We must not permit the "tonight be merry for tomorrow we die" spirit to ruin our academic careers. A full liberal-arts education is still for the having if we desire it strongly enough. Most important of all, we must have widely educated men if civilization is to go on. In this military era, scholars as well as governments can and must be militant...