Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working the upon the traditions, prejudices, aversions or inertia of the people. The rst. inclination of most men and women is to connect every new problem with something already silhouetted in their imaginations some principle that has already found lodgment there. Very few of us approach any new public question with open minds; or rather, we do it with minds that are open at the bottom only, not open at the top. Arguments and appeals to reason go in and fall right out again. The stereotype remains unaltered...
...such a worthy one as that of Summer-field Baldwin comes to the notice of this paper, traditions fall by the wayside and all is forgotten but a definite desire to see success crown the efforts of hard laboring humanity. For Mr. Baldwin is hardlaboring. There can be little question of that. His very writing proves it. In the excerpts from his article, "The Next President of Harvard--A Prediction", published in the Transcript of yesterday one discovers the hard labor of love. He wants the Presidency. That is patent And no one should be President who does not want...
...stated that the most startling feature of the new Russia is the way in which all civil and judicial functions are handled solely in the interest of the Soviet government. "The courts are frankly political," he said, "If any matter of politics or personal freedom is involved, the only question is: What is best for the soviet government? Schools, industries and public utilities are all operated to the same purpose...
...further inducement to participation in class football, individual trophies will be awarded to the members of the winning team and a shield with their names upon it will be hung in the Locker Building. At the next meeting of the Student Council the question of awarding class numerals to the members of the winning team will be taken up. Among the coaches who will take charge of the squad this season are K. S. Pfaffman '24, on the 1924 eleven, and John Donovan '22. Equipment will be distributed at the Locker Building before the initial meeting today...
...movement of hundreds of thousands of college students to institutions that are all overtaxed to take care of them raises a question to which the Summer, sessions suggest a partial answer. Cannot this congestion be partly met by the all-year use of classrooms, laboratories and libraries which now are vacant for at least a fourth of the year? Where climatic conditions are tolerable there seems to be no reason why higher institutions of learning should not be continuously active, as are all the other serious businesses and professions c. our modern civilization...