Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Mackail, whose last book, "The Square Circle", was a Book of the Month Club selection, has written a pleasant and amusing tale, almost too full of coincidence, but so cleverly written that no one feels any particular objection. "David's Day" is ingenious and entertaining, not good enough for...
Superficially, the suggestion is attractive. Freed from enervating periods with uninterested students, tutors could preserve their energies for more worthy men. Wealthy "gentlemen," unhampered by exacting requirements, would probably be attracted to a new dilettante paradise; expensive suites would be permanently filled and financial worries ended. But the exclusion of...
Fundamental Objection
In these words a fundamental objection to university business schools, as they now are, is stated. They poison the atmosphere of the university. They lure immature young bachelors of arts into money-making when the universities ought to be doing precisely the reverse, and they do it under the pretense...
Whether or not the naming of two gansters to aid in this return will prove to be the most efficacious method remains to be seen. The irony of the situation is obvious enough. It is only natural that Colonel Lindbergh should employ all possible means and, granting conditions in America...