Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since the word went out that a college diploma was the only possible pass-key to wealth, wisdom, and social success, the rush of students coming to college for irrelevant reasons has threatened to swamp the true scholar. In 1895, the enrollment in American colleges was 45,000. At present it is well over 500,000. Some of the new arrivals came to snatch the technical training which would enable them to get good jobs as quickly as possible; others to make those contacts which are believed to be profitable in certain forms of business; others to postpone for four...
...present reviewer is distinctly a Marxophil; there is no question that he will attend and enjoy every piece in which Harpo Marx has a part; Harpo's countenance insures it. And so with this introduction and explanation let us proceed to a consideration of the performance at hand, which is "Animal Crackers", now playing at the Shubert Theatre...
...fields covered by these examinations and start the year on more important material. The wisdom of such an attitude, if it is true, is surely to be questioned in view of the chaotic conditions under which students are forced to take the examinations this year. The whole condition at present is surely far from ideal. Some arrangement of these examinations in the Junior year might eliminate many of the glaring deficiencies in the present system...
...States. This support comes from the author of "America Comes of Age," the celebrated French economist, Andre Siegfried, who points out meaningly that Europe has become strong enough to retaliate against unduly high tariff measures. The analysis of Professor Taussig together with the intimations from France suggest that the present Congress has been busy sowing seeds which another generation will reap...
Such questions suggest that this present tariff policy, however successful it may have been in the past, is at present a short sighted one. There remains the shadow of hatred from nations whom economic pressure drives to envy and despair. This is the real warning from Professor Taussig? It is the real danger in the tariff, and it awaits a generation which did not write the bill...