Word: prided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this puzzling, fascinating, maddening world of yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world of tomorrow which must be different because he wills it so; if they will only stand erect before him, in no pride of authority, but with unquestioning faith in the scientific tools they have pain-fully learned to use for the progressive revelation of that world to its maker-to-be, and with unquenchable enthusiasm for the value of that revelation, the college need not fear. Its future is secure." This...
...character first, then scholastic standing, vigorous health, elimination of the lazyminded, and acceptance of those who have something in their minds they wish to study, see, or do. This work looked formidable it is proving very easy. Informationss is easily obtainable. The colleges have shown a cooperative spirit and pride in wishing to have their institution represented by their best students. Therefore, the students will average much higher in character and personality than under the requirements of a university ashore. This means that the question of moral safety, welfare and health are more easily controlled...
...Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.)-triumph. A fortnight ago, her pride, her young Demosthenes, her handsome Maurice ("Red") Robinson journeyed to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) with his elocution coach, Professor W. N. Brigance, for the National Contest of the Interstate Oratorical Association, for which he had qualified by winning the Indiana state contest (TIME, March 1). Other doughty state champions were there at Evanston: a forceful South Dakotan with an oration on prohibition; a West Virginian propounding that "Science Has a Rendez-vous"; an lowan primed to deliver "Cat and Cattle." But none was so shrewd, none so compelling as Hoosier...
...author, a bishop, a governor, senators (including the late LaFollette, the retired Beveridge), six college presidents and many another Who of Who's Who. Incidentally, he had won for Wabash her fourth national championship in seven years, her second in succession. "If," said Elocution Professor Brigance with pardonable pride, "if there be such a thing as a crown of American oratory, certainly there could be no disputant of Wabash's claim...
Nothing danced by her own back-yard, America has employed these postwar years in annihilating Europe, in opinion at least. The wealth which brings prestige and the prestige which brings prestige and the prestige which breeds pride have undeniably fallen into American hands. If the pride be sufficient to rationalize crudity to culture, then it may be said that American supremacy is complete, colonialism over, and provincialism truly begun...