Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college president will permit it, so the periodical infers, our instructors are engaged in an unceasing border warfare which results in a balance of power as proclaimed in the announcement of courses. "To multiply subjects is to multiply rivalries. But a shrewd Bismarck of a professor who has a nice expansive subject such as sociology, history, or philosophy can soon be trespassing on every field in the whole curriculum before his colleagues--or his students--suspect what he is doing...
This raises a nice question in political philosophy as regards our democracy. Is the President of the United States rightly a master or a servant of the people? To say that he is a master is an obvious denial of the very purpose of a representative government. On the other hand, to require the President to submerge his abilities as a mere servant to those who choose him is absurd. In-so-far as all his power is derived from the people must he subordinate his personal biases to public opinion, and in-so-far as popular confidence...
...cage the puck with a long shot that slipped through the goal guard's feet for the third point. At this point Coach Lombard began to send in his second line with the result that the yearling's defense weakened and M. I. T. scored. Taking a nice pass from Corliss Lamont a moment later, Harry Gardiner, substituting for Lee at left wing, pushed the puck into the goal for the fourth and last score for the Freshmen. Before the scrimmage ended, the first string men went back in but were unable to score again...
...Oxford and Cambridge are so entirely different, any way, from most sorts of universities. They are institutions for making a Jolly aristocracy instead of a priggish one. Harvard, I understand, aims to make the students work, while the atmosphere of Oxford is merely to have a nice time and learning is very little forced on the men who go there. This Oxford idea, you know is a great deal better than having a lot of priggish science thrust on one. But after all, Oxford isn't a university; it is simply the playground for the English gentry...
This volume deals with Genos, Nice, Monaco, Mentone, Monte Carlo, San Reme, Bordighera, Ventimiglia and many other picturesque places on the Riviera. With 30 color plates drawn by the author. Quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. Hutchinson, Ltd., London. Published at $7.50. Special price...