Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fall Mr. Johnson was re-elected by a constituency exclusively Republican. A "plain Republican" he must be after March...
...editors have exposed once and for all the foulness that has been masquerading in these innocent-appearing pages. It is almost inconceivable that respectable college men should be willing to debase themselves, in the words of the Telegram, to such a "course of racial hatred, religious intolerance and plain, ordinary ignorance, insolence, arrogance, and impudence" as this magazine displays...
Perhaps finger-print signatures are almost as ancient as those of the cross, plain and simple. Pirate stories abound with descriptions of contracts, signed in blood by solemn imprint of the fingertip--or, more often, of the "massive thumb". Tom Sawyer's famous compact has been an inspiration to many a romantic youth. And artists, from time immemorial, have used the finger-print as a personal signature on drawings and paintings. But in spite of so honorable an ancestry, the idea of compulsory finger-prints seems to be meeting with some opposition...
...number endowed with more than that ordinary ability, would be entering each year at sixteen and fifteen, while several (the present fifteen-year-olds) would come at fourteen or under. Unfortunately, the examinations test only mental development; they offer no estimate of character or physique, and it is already plain to be seen that the first often grows far faster than the other two. And the report which he quotes, also, refers only to scholarship plus a negative quality called "conduct", which probably means that younger students are more docile...
With characteristic skill, many of the metropolitan newspapers have taken up the University's problem of admitting negroes to the Freshman dormitories, and have mis-emphasized it in such a way as to give a false impression. A plain statement of facts is the only basis for judgement, and the letters printed on another page supply those facts. Students who discuss the question may be assured of one thing; that President Lowell has not acted hastily, and that he has acted as he believes is best for all interests. Regardless of personal bias, everyone must acknowledge that his explanation...