Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reaction. President Coolidge's speech took the way of political commonsense. He knew that the Senate, after its World Court broil last January, would have no more to do with international brotherhood, unless its five reservations were accepted verbatim. In September the Geneva Conference added counter-reservations (TIME, Sept. 13) and some friendly World Court Senators became hostile. So, now the situation has come to an impasse: Europe is little inclined to accept the Senate reservations; the Senate and the Administration will not listen to counter-reservations...
...Reaction. The cry started a month ago will continue a long time. In Texas, growers have already started to plow partly picked cotton fields for the sowing of fall small grains. Discouraged tenant farmers throughout the South are abandoning unpicked cotton for paying jobs in towns and cities. Transient labor is scarce. There are few gleaners...
Those who fill the pages of periodicals and pamphlets about the need of cooperation between university administrators and students can do nothing more beneficial to themselves and their public than to study the reaction of the administration at Harvard to the suggestion of the CRIMSON that it was high time for club tables and systematized eating to take the place of cafeteria philandering in the life of both graduate and undergraduate...
...Crimson aggregation showed a lack of inspiration, and played listlessly, possibly showing the reaction after the last two games, in which the spirit and drive of the 1930 team has been an outstanding feature...
...once it was common to blame money as the root of all evil, so now it is the fashion to blame the Ph.D. degree. If this continues, a reaction within the universities will force upon the graduate student a certainly arid scholarship. Of course the scholarly side of the graduate work is now stressed. But such must be the case. Unless a man has gone through this mill or is a genius, he cannot know his subject. And there are not many geniuses in this country. Writers like these attackers of the Ph.D. want personality stressed. The CRIMSON...