Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creative task, and collect such reliable data that a modern problem might be dealt with in a modern way, by the application of technical knowledge. Not infrequently there has been expressed a hope that the men of American universities would do more than recognize the value to the nation's development of their technical work, but would attempt to apply it at times to certain problems through more direct means than books or the training of capable men. In modern times many problems are too complex to be solved judiciously by anyone who is not a specialist in the field...
...reached the dignity of an institution. The advantages of any scheme that helps develop an intelligent reading public are apparent. Equally obvious is the desirability of encouraging an interest in affairs of the day among a class that will supply many of the future leaders of the nation, and these two factors help explain the interest aroused by the contest...
Special preparation for the contest is not necessary and all who are interested are urged to participate. The winner will receive a prize of $250 and a medal, besides having his paper entered in a nation-wide contest where another prize will be available...
...suggested .that The Nation was too solemn, and that its editor, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, ought to be taken to a night club occasionally, and shot full of synthetic hell...
...Wrong. Sin and gin will not help The Nation. Mr. Broun himself has been helped by neither. Tex Guinan has not helped him to courage, or wit, or passion or greatness. A Broadway night club is not a nursery for brave thinking...