Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dial was the author. He and I come from that little storm-centre of the United States which has given to the nation some of its brightest and purest lights in the political arena, and during the turmoil and strife of war we maintained and kept the faith of pure and unadulterated democracy. The old party was our pillar of fire by night and cloud by day. When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf us, the Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white people of the South rallied and looked...
...that there are some Senators over here who could tell me that we have lost the confidence of the country, and I would pass it by, but Senators who make the allegation must be pure of heart and true in record. . . . No politics has heretofore been brought into any discussion at this session. It is a pity that the first voice to be raised in this Chamber against the Democratic Party is by an alleged Democratic Senator proclaiming that the Democratic Party has lost the confidence of the country...
...sciences, such as medicine and engineering and agriculture, and the vocational studies, such as law. are at their best taught (and learned!) far better than anywhere in England. But when it came to what one may call by contrast the world of thought, quite the opposite was the case. Pure science and the purely cultural subjects, such as classics and literature and art, are absolutely inferior in most cases, and usually neglected. The situation in regard to them is either tragic or comic. Accordingly, although one meets students who obviously show promise of becoming great engineers, great doctors, captains...
...main reasons why the American university system is not going the right way to produce men of genius in art and philosophy, pure science and literature, is because diversity of character is not encouraged but suppressed; for genius is the flower of exceptional diversity. Let me explain how this suppression is brought about...
...hold, as expressed by W. H. Cowley, a former member of Dartmouth's student committee on the curriculum: 'Our professors stand on platforms like little gods and speak in pale blue voices, and when blue book time comes, we regurgitate. . . . Phi Beta Kappa scholarship is all pure memory work, parrot education...