Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instead of so airy and fragile an educative purpose, about as comprehensible as pure theology, it is plain that the aim of education is not to implant in young intellects any given set of dogmas--even the very interesting dogmas of the dogma-hating Mr. Mencken. Education does not ignore the issues that confront the modern world, but, avoiding the ex cathedra dictation of belief, tries to lead the student to reason for himself, to cull and consider to become a thinking atom in a difficult universe of conflicting purposes...
...leadership in outside activities. In its strict sense leadership in studies is a misnomer. A man may stand at the head of the Rank List, but if he hides his light under a bushel, devoting his whole time to himself, he leads no one. However great his ability, the pure scholar spares none of it to the common good, and in consequence is not honored by his classmates...
...Hugo's influence, it is probable that of Anatole France will be greater. A Frenchman can best appraise him. In the Revue Bleue of February 23, 1901, Fernand Gregh said. "Never was the French language better written. . . . It is simply perfection. Renan himself wrote less well as far as pure technique is concerned. . . . He is a brother through the centuries of Marot, Montaigne, Racine, La Fontaine, La Bruyere, Fenelon, Diderot, and Voltaire. He is the Frenchman. A man who is to such an extent representative, to use one of Emerson's expressions, is a rare and important being...
...people, for the people, be imposed upon by the oft repeated assertion that a Supreme Judge is beyond criticism and beyond correction? How can the election or appointment of a questionable attorney to a place among the judiciary make him so great and make his decisions so pure and so wise that other rational men are denied the right to consider or criticize or weigh the value of any decree or decision of any Supreme Judge when Supreme Courts are composed of fallible men elected or appointed by fallible electors and fallible executives through fallible partisan and political influence...
These horses are all pure bred mounts, and added to the six horses which the department already has will make 12 ponies which are available for use by the polo team...