Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dr. Coe's charge that only a small proportion of students can define their educational wants brought forth considerable discussion and refutation. The delegates demanded that education prepare them to enjoy life more in connection with the work they intend to take up, or that they be enabled to find...
"In an age notorious for its laxity to the woman murderer; in a generation which tempers its judgment toward females in proportion to their so-called 'sex-appeal'; in a day when judges are known to order screens placed between the prisoner-at-the-bar and her jury...
In this solemn hour of intercollegiate "hate," the shaken soul finds comfort in that always calm old friend, the dictionary. "Lampoon" comes from "lampoons," let us drink. Liquor in Cambridge seems to have degenerated. Lampy's ancient humor has become mere billingsgate. Hollis Holworthy, that sometime mirror of correctness and...
As to the relation between the faculty and the students, and the unrest of the latter. Dr. Little makes a point that some of the most prominent educators have ignored; and that is that youth is to be preserved; an education which serves to shorten the period of youth is...
The Significance of a doctor's diagnosis is in proportion to his ability to prescribe a remedy. This doctor has a simple cure in mind. He concludes (in effect) : "Go to the library. Read the newspapers newsmagazines, literary reviews. Follow your leads into good books."