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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Approval of the often-beaten Norris amendment to abolish "lame duck" Congresses...
...black-furred cub of a silver-tipped sire, boyish Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette of Wisconsin, mounted the convention platform last week as his dead father had so often done before him, to voice the "conscience" of the G. 0. P. He followed Senator Smoot. He presented what has been called, since 1908 when the senior La Follette began the practice, "The Minority Report on the Platform...
...democracy at Harvard? No, not so bad as that perhaps; but still we could have been better fitted with a realization that America is a democratic country. Harvard as we have known it, as we have composed it, has learned of democracy chiefly in the classrooms, and then often as a political theory of doubtful value. Let us again face facts! The tide of American democracy will rise high once more. Let Harvard prepare its men to rise with it. Let Harvard undergraduates show that tolerance which is the essence of individualistic democracy. Let Harvard graduates fit themselves to lead...
...upon the student. Facts are ladled out to him wholesale, like sweet and sour pickles from a tub, with little effort expended upon distinguishing the sweet from the sour. The man behind the book is more willing to learn than ever before, but the man behind the desk is often too busy to teach. The professor having absorbed facts throughout his comfortable career, is content to add to his achievements in the seclusion of a library stall. There he may dissect at his ease some trifling bit of antiquarianism to satisfy the cry of modern educationists for research, and more...
...Mount, "if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." But President Lowell made opening acknowledgement of the verity that what seems right at one time and meets the apparent approval of the conscience, "the light of the body" that is the eye, often leads to results unforeseen, undesired, and incompatible with the aims of the individual...