Word: purely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...civil service system, pure food and anti-monopoly laws, rate, railroad and anti-discriminatory regulations all need true and staunch men to uphold and develop them in the right direction. In the foreign service men who are educated and versed in foreign languages are needed as ambassadors, ministers, secretaries, and consuls. In state governments we are passing through an era of constitutional conventions. Various changes are urged as more adapted to our present-day conditions, while in city government we note a determination to concentrate power so as to have fewer abuses and to know whom to blame...
...Atlantic Monthly" voices a strong protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there is no pre-established harmony between his soul and any form of learning, then...
...University sport in England is primarily Oxford and Cambridge sport. It true that there are other universities England, but (except from the stand point of scholarship pure and simple) they count for little. 'To go up to the University' means ordinarily to become student at Oxford or Cambridge. It as been said that an understanding of English society is necessary to a comprehension of English politics. It might equally well have been said of English University sport. Both politics and 'varsity sport' are the amusements of a class which has no counterpart in this country...
...method of experimentation is complicated. The experiments were carried out with the greatest thoroughness, especial care being taken to have the materials as pure as possible. The results of the investigation were amazing. It was found that all of the radioactive speciments, obtained from uraninite, carnotite and thorianite, exhibited a lower atomic weight than ordinary lead, as determined under identical conditions, the deficiency in one case amounting to as much as 0.75 of a unit...
...brevity of the current issue of the Harvard Musical Review. This is indicative of its interest, and it redounds to the credit of a young publication that, in times of material necessity when art is hungry and shivering, it can make a successful incursion into the field of pure criticism...