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...Joses were only the cousins of Jesus and if this meaning is held for two of the parties, the same must be construed for Juda and Simon. Thus with a knowledge of the meaning of the quotation, it can scarcely be used to support your contention that the remark was "UN-LEARNED...
...that was so high-spirited and frankly satirical that he practically swept the play off its feet every time he made his appearance; all of which was a considerable help to a limping plot. The hero of the love element, fortunately not very important, was best characterized by a remark of a young lady in the audience who remarked in a loud tone as he first appeared on the screen, "Wait until she sees him!" The surprise could not have been over-whelmingly pleasant...
...advisability of re-organization of college life. Basic trouble at Princeton, he thought, was the clubs. President McCosh had suppressed the Greek-letter fraternities; but their successors, the upper-class eating clubs, were just as bad. ''The side shows are swallowing up the circus," was Wilson's famed remark. "There is danger that we will develop socially, as Harvard did and Yale is tending to do." In 1906 he had been president of Princeton for four years. At a meeting of a sympathetic Board of Trustees he proposed a quadrangle plan: to have the undergraduates live, almost self-governing...
...Columbia Professor's iconoclastic remark, even if it was not uttered solely to goad the audience, is not so cynical as it will sound to some. Even for those who are not consciously working toward any specific objective, college is more than an empty last resource. The comparatively leisurely life of the undergraduate is a welcome boon to those who are anxious to investigate as many of life's possibilities as they can. Though hundreds of students, Phi Beta Kappa as well as C men, are graduated in unconcerned ignorance of those widely different possibilities, other hundreds profit...
...families might prevent the birth of great men (viz. Benjamin Franklin, 10th son of his father, eighth child of his mother), Mrs. Sanger popped out: "I call your attention to the fact that the great leader of Christianity, Jesus Christ, was said to be an only child." Her unlearned remark** immediately raised hubbub...