Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They will find, it is true, a superficial resemblance in the clattering street cars and the well-paved streets. But they will find far wider distinctions between the social classes. Among the "foreigners," with whom they will associate they will find a ready, kindly, courteous welcome, a welcome tempered nevertheless at first by a quiet scrutiny, for the foreign colony of the city, perforce thrown into rather close communion, always wonders how affably the newcomer will mix. In the colony lines of nationality blur; personality is more important...
...augurs ill for the permanent value, which it had been hoped this country would obtain from membership in the Court to see the Congressmen who favor such membership putting forth purely negative reasons for it. Nevertheless they but reflect the suspicious attitude of the country-at-large that has rendered all international peace projects abortive since the war. Perhaps disillusionment, the inevitable reaction of the violent enthusiasm the war engendered, has been the cause of this timorous provincialism, for the triumph of the Allied arms was attended with an almost universal wave of longing for a new world order. Only...
...main detriment to education in the south," he said, "is, of course, the negro situation. But we are still going through a period of reconstruction, South Carolina was the most trampled on state in the South, and received a hard blow. Nevertheless, our small colleges are making rapid progress, and producing some powerful intellects...
...curriculum of all courses in Public Speaking is the subject of an article in the current Alumni Bulletin by R. S. Fanning '23 Although the existence of English B destroys the assertion that Harvard undergraduates are altogether without instruction in the art of speaking in public, it is nevertheless plain that the passing of English 10 and kindred courses has left behind a distinct void in the structure of courses which ought not long to go unfilled...
...There nevertheless remains the fact that certain fundamentals of public speech can be taught, and the calibre of the average speech is strong evidence of the need for the teaching. With the old methods and the old ideals discredited, there is great necessity, as Mr. Fanning points out, for the evolution of a new method of instruction. The present disappearance of all the traditional courses in public speaking in the University presents the logical occasion for taking this action...