Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider the proposal concretely, two facts stand out. In the first place, we recognize a definite ratio between the navies of Great Britain, the United States and Japan, and do not pretend that our navy must equal or surpass any other. This is a necessary expedient if the plan is to be acceptable to all, yet it clearly does not endanger our safety. Secondly, the plan calls for actual reduction as well as limitation, which is essential if the program is to be of more than temporary value...
...college does not pretend to verse the undergraduate in the rules of his future business; that is the purpose of the graduate school. A college is satisfied if it can teach the undergraduate to reason, to think clearly. The problem of how best to accomplish this is puzzling educational boards throughout the country...
...pretend and withhold necessaries." M. MARC...
...Oettinger seems to believe that college men know nothing of these matters, are not qualified to discuss them intelligently, and should keep their ignorance to themselves. Of course, neither the editors of the CRIMSON nor its correspondents are experts. They do not pretend to settle these problems. They naturally take an interest, however, in national issues and form opinions on them. A college man who believes that because his knowledge of such problems is limited he should avoid discussion of them and should devote all his thoughts to collegiate or other minor matters will not make a good citizen...
Referring to poetry in general, Mr. Roberts said, "It is a sad fact, but there are usually no more than two men in a thousand capable of understanding poetry. There are many hypocrites, to be sure, who pretend to understand verse and who join an exclusive Browning cult, but this is done in order to conform to custom. The poet is born, not made. He has within him the 'urge of the eager' which needs no routine training. In college the poet is usually shy, for an individual is repressed, but the type advanced. You have a very good school...