Word: prone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have such a socialistic state over here", continued Mr. Russell when told about the recent dispute over the R. O. T. C., "that you have no personal liberty. The individual is too prone to follow the crowd. So although I approve of pacifist movements in universities, I myself would be much too individualistic to bother about abolishing your Military Science 'Department, I would merely refuse to have anything to do with...
...years Drawing an analogy between crew in American colleges and crew as it exists in England, he dwelt especially on the nearer approach to a similarity or attitude toward the sport "The English attitude has always been to regard the sport as a sport, while American colleges have been prone to regard it more as a task. Due largely to the rowing for all policy lately established, the attitude at Harvard has changed appreciably toward the former Rowing has become a real sport...
...undergraduate of either of the two universities which find themselves in conflict today is prone to regard the Harvard-Yale football series as something coeval with the founding of the younger universities. As a matter of fact the series, with the background as the youth of today knows it, has been in existence some scant twenty-five years. Before then there were no great stadia and no series of home and home games...
...might be pointed out to Mr. Zangwill that his own Britain is just as prone to listen to the opinions of the unqualified as America. It is notoriously true that the British amateur strategists who possessed political importance were able to make themselves felt during the War in military affairs to an extent which greatly hampered the British Army. Nor has Britain come out of the World War without important compensations in the way of new colonial possessions. Still, if Mr. Zangwill really feels this way, it is much better for both his audience and himself that he should...
...contemplation, perhaps excessively so, and therefore St. Paul's words appeal to us. They have in fact a peculiarly modern ring, for the first impression they produce is that of measuring the value of acts by the results attained rather than by the moral purpose involved. We are prone to rate among the virtuous those who have conferred benefits upon mankind regardless of the motives that actuated them; and the effect is good, insofar as it encourages others to do the like. But this is not the attitude expressed by St. Paul in the text. He is treating only...