Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full of thoughtful suggestions, and it is written in the spirit of earnest investigation which will eventually find the right result "Participation in sports and games," he says, "furnishes the principal, if not the only practical training in ethics that exists in our modern educational system." With this remark in mind, it is evident that athletics are worth all possible of torts to save them...
...Liberal papers. And so the Campus pictures its own Liberal Club as a group of young, bearded Bolshevists, who, in the words of one in authority, "like all Liberals, can only see one side of the question." We might venture an opinion, here, that both the conception and the remark are unjust. The Yale Liberal Club was ostensibly organized for the purpose of discussion, in an effort to see both sides of the question. Of course no one knows what actually does transpire behind its closed doors. Probably a good many sacred things are slandered, for youth is naturally impetuous...
Small wonder that the Ministry of Agriculture is alarmed. Here is a peasant aristocrat, overturing at one blow all pretensions of such upstart houses as Bourbons, Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Plantagenets to antiquity. Renan's famous remark that if the rights of ownership were religiously observed, Alsace-Lorraine would belong to the aboriginal apes, is nearly true to a lesser degree in this French farmer with his nine hundred year old ancestry. As far as, claims to aristocracy are concerned the line of this peasant proprietor going back over three hundred years before the rhyme...
...question of the proper ventilation of recitation rooms has by this time passed from the status of a trite subject to that of a classic one. Nevertheless, we shall not repeat the remark that a college which provides instruction in chemistry, physiology, and hygiene, and which also compels its students to breathe poison for several hours a day, may perhaps, with some show of reason, he accused of inconsistency. . . .We shall not suggest that some means of ventilation other than by the windows might be provided: nor shall we hint that the students and instructors who regulate the temperature...
...years ago Lord Playfair quoted the saying that the function of the two great English universities was to teach men to spend, that of the Scotch universities to teach them to earn, an income respectably; and he added that American universities existed for both of those objects. This cryptic remark might be the subject of endless discussion. The aim of the American college should be, not to give its students the technical training and tools of their future occupation, but rather to fit them to be citizens, to develop those qualities that lead to the better life both for themselves...