Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demonstrably activated by a desire for study and plunges headlong into an explanation of its impossibility. He is convinced that the exclusive purpose of an education for nine out of ten undergraduates is to prepare them for business. This absolute neglect of the value of study for its own sake and for the appreciation of human knowledge attendant on it hardly needs comment. Its glaring fallacy will be too familiar to anyone acquainted with the already large literature inspired by the spiritless existence of the retired business...
...Secretary of Commerce Claudius Hart Huston and U. S. Representative Brazilla Carroll Reece. The leader of a neighboring and equally Republican district in Tennessee is Representative J. Will Taylor. The Messrs. Huston and Reece have sharp intraparty differences with Mr. Taylor. But it was planned, for harmony's sake, to let Mr. Taylor be as big a lion as anyone in receiving Nominee Hoover. It was planned that, at the luncheon of the day, Mr. Reece should rise to welcome the Nominee, and that Mr. Taylor should then rise to praise him. Both wrote out fine speeches. The hour...
...ascertain the extent of the Stadium's dilapidation. Some pained group of alumni might even ask for a retraction. But undergraduates with their happy indifference will do better to take Time for the rusty little organ it is and discard its serious avowals of truth for truth's sake as but another symptom of their wondrous merry mood...
...There is no question, but that a little wine 'for the stomach's sake' represents a real therapeutic result and has an action not on the stomach but on its nearest neighbour, the heart...
...weighed. It is a question if the lack of experience consequent upon assuming more responsibility a year early will be made up in even the best advice. Then again the process might be found to be merely borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, overworking the junior for the sake of saving the senior. There is left, then the obvious question as to whether such a policy could be effective on a wide enough basis to benefit many. The matter should be worth serious consideration, however, for in theory it has much to commend it. The practical application of the plan...