Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding problem is this. It may best be stated in the form of a question. Can the average young American be liberally educated? Can it be done? And it doesn't seem that there is very much doubt about the answer. The answer so far is that he can't under existing conditions. That question seems to be a rather serious one for this reason: Our whole scheme of life in America is based on the presupposition that the young American can be educated. We have supposed that America is to be the home of educated persons, and we have...
Victor Kwong, president of the Chinese Student Christian Association of Greater Boston and a student in Boston University, College of Liberal Arts will speak this evening at 6.45 o'clock in Standish Hall Common Room on "The Chinese Question." The meeting this evening is the third in a series of four meetings on the general theme of internationalism being held under the auspices of the Harvard Mission...
...Bode, Professor of Education at Ohio State University, discussed "The College Man's Philosophy of Life." He stated that the college man is now thinking for himself, whereas forty years ago he accepted without question the philosophy which was handed him by his family and his alma mater. Professor Bode suggested a new teaching which will meet this point of view with a new interpretation, to give a unified view of life and present if in its bread aspects...
Brushing aside this question of principle, the Roman Catholic clergy pointed out the perfect technical propriety of the Vanderbilt- Marlborough annulment by the Rota, a court so august that the sheer weight of its legal machinery prevents it being set in motion except in behalf of litigants of some consequence. Said Father Parsons, editor of the Roman Catholic Weekly America, speaking over the radio at Manhattan: "Let it be remembered that the Rota has been sitting on cases such as this since 1323. For over 900 years persons having grounds for believing that their marriages are invalid have appeared before...
...deal of knowledge about the maple sugar industry as practised in the New England States; but, then, George might be bored. The Queen would no doubt want to be remembered to Mrs. Coolidge but such courtesies require only a brief time for despated. Certainly neither gentleman will open the question of debits or foreign trade--politics are taboo in polite social circles. It is a difficult situation when two parties of such different tastes as George of Buckingham and Windsor and Calvin of Washington and Plymouth get together--even over a telephone. But as it is there will probably...