Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until last spring he had played the "father" with the Kahns, circus fat family. He could not be the real father, for some of the Kahns were almost as old as he, 47; and, besides, no one had ever really loved him, for all his fat. The familial relationship was purely commercial, his particular job being to sit with his front spread over his lap as bumpkins paused to wonder and snicker. Once he noted a youngish couple squeeze an impertinent witticism through their clasped fingers. He was sad for days...
...There can be no relationship between the principles upon which the Mexican Constitution is built, the laws that embody them, the spirit with which it is proposed they shall be enforced and the principles, laws and spirit that are held sacred by the American people...
...program of the present meeting of the National Student Federation appears to be largely taken up with the question of the relation of non-academic activities to the academic activities. This relationship must be worked out by the students. To me the extra-curriculum is the healthful, life-giving source of new curriculum. Out of the debating has grown the Political Science Department, out of the prayer meeting has come the Department of Religion. It would, therefore, seem as though it would be possible to bridge the gap between the academic and the non-academic so as to give real...
...young American to take the responsibility upon himself of getting his own studies. Somehow or other we have fallen into a situation where the teacher is responsible for what happens to the mind of the student. Somehow or other we have got to get that relationship reversed. A student goes to college to learn and somehow he has got to start out learning for himself, and take the initiative himself, and whatever the teacher does must be by the way of guidance and a mere supplement to that which the student does himself. I think that the teacher can help...
...High Church" Episcopalian weekly, the Living Church gleefully cried: "Give us, good Rota, some nice Latin words to use for a husband whose husbandship you have removed, and a wife upon whose wifehood you have trampled, for a marriage whose holy, sacramental character you have spurned and for a relationship to children which you have degraded unfathomably. . . . How can one be sure he is married? Marriage standards in Rome and Soviet Russia appear to be ap proaching a common plane...