Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When recent graduates of American colleges begin to apply the cold, clear light of reason to educational problems, deserting fictional pabulum for genuine analysis, the future assumes a brighter aspect. A few are heading towards this end, a stalwart valiant few. In the May Forum Edward C. Aswell offers his theory for what is known as the suicide wave among students. He begins by pointing out that as a wave the number of deaths amounts to no more than the annual tide which has always swept in from the uncharted seas of adolescence, bringing disaster in its wake. Nevertheless, objects...
...United States has the last reason to be priding itself, in fact, they waited an adversary until he bled from thousands of wounds after three years of the severest struggle. Why? To save the money that your fellow-countrymen had invested in the business of War. It is tell-tale fact that even now the United States, eight years after the conclusion of the War, have not yet been able to decide to lay bare the archives, which would prove that; means were employed to bring the United States into the World War and at the same time violate...
...efficacy of their present smoking rules, have inquired at Harvard, among other places, for its regulations on the subject and the young ladies have been answered. "No student shall keep a dog in a college building"; nothing whatsoever is said about smoking, for the very good reason that there was nothing to be said. Harvard may or may not be the home of the brave, but there can be no doubt that it is the land of the free...
...Supreme Judicial Court; that the present practice in which a capital case may be heard by only one judge is an anomaly in Massachusetts history, an experiment of barely ten years standing when Sacco and Vanzetti were brought to trial (and a clearly dangerous experiment): and that for this reason, public concern in its working is not only justified but demanded on the part of all who do respect and value the fair name of our courts...
...pressure of school work increased, and because of the exacting nature of the follow-up work, this form of social service was not adapted to the conditions existing." And so we go from year to year without any real evidence of any real service having been negotiated. The reason is, we believe, that the nature of medical work and the great limitation of extra time forbids any participation in outside activity. As a matter of fact if the time were available, the upperclassmen would undoubtedly devote much of it in knowing and learning to serve better his own particular patients...