Word: panacea
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There is another more important side of the question. These regulations, to a few satiric rogues appear to have been inaugurated on the general principle that since the students do not at present cover the work required of them, the obvious panacea is to assign more. Really, this is an inference supported by the facts. The student feels that quite enough is required of him already. He is not in a receptive mood...
There is no panacea for labor disputes. Even Australia, administered by a Labor government, was recently tied up by an enormous railway strike. The American plan can only succeed in averting trouble if it creates the spirit of industrial peace; and this it seems admirable fitted...
Education is cited as a panacea for all our ills, but how can education fulfill our hopes unless there is more monetary stimulus to draw able men into the teaching profession? At present, there are innumerable examples of young college graduates, eminently fitted for an academic life, who shun such a future solely because they are unable to forego the comfort for themselves and their families which they are able so easily to earn in other fields...
Something over a year ago the people of this country were looking toward peace as to the Millenium. The end of hostilities was to be the panacea for all wrong; the nation was to settle down, and with a clean slate start anew. The war had taught us lessons in patriotism, co-operation and economy. One of its dearly-bought advantages was to be a national house-cleaning. The old order was dead, and we were going through fire that a newer and cleaner order might arise from its ashes...
...plan, which is outlined in detail on another page, the possibility for class feeling has been reduced to a minimum. Nominations by petition only and preferential voting in the Sophomore and Junior classes are the vital issues of the new scheme. That this will prove the long-sought panacea for the ill-feeling which has followed so many class elections, we strongly believe. The constitution as drawn up by the committee was accepted with very little opposition and is a permanent tribute to those who have worked hard to eliminate politics from college elections...