Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the last year, the Yale Law School has been trying to evolve a more satisfactory system. We are not seeking a panacea, and realize that a change must be rather gradual, since most students dislike being used as guinea pigs, with the possibility of wrecking their imminent careers by an unsuccessful experiment...
...panacea for the many educational ills of the college is being offered, but few deny the tendencies of the times. Separation of the two groups of students is being considered and has been considered. Yale is pondering the Third College at this moment. But as long as such steps as the Reading Period innovation are being taken, it is imperative to recognize the fact that only about half the undergraduate body is benefited. On all too many has the latest seed from University Hall been wasted. Then in the future only the appreciative would have the opportunities presented...
...suggestion of Heywood Broun offers at least an intelligent solution, if not a panacea for tennis ills. To rate players as professional upon a basis of skill would do away with the problem of compensation, and the rank would be in the nature of a healthful prize; Helen Wills could then meet Lenglen on a salary basis with no questions asked; and young Doeg could resume his studies when his services were no longer needed in defense of America's athletic reputation...
Moreover, he advances a panacea which if it could be practically applied would certainly remedy a situation, the instability and uncertainty of which at least no one will deny. Nowhere is the utter neglect of reliable standards more evident than in university and college life in general. And when, in the face of this fact, the impossibility of attaining an intrinsically sound basis outside of the circle of higher education in considered, the outlook is sinister. Standards conducive to stabilization are all too few, and the average student in most cases has enough intelligence to regret the time, energy...
...work of the League be regarded as it was by Woodrow Wilson in the light of a panacea for all international ills, there is little comfort in the record of the past eight years. Overlook the work of the Conventions as the people do, and the one achievement of the League of Nations is that it meets...