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...wants to. but he'll have to pay board. I'm through supporting him." A $3000 automobile he had given his son was to be sold. Jack, said he, had been a fine boy in preparatory school. But "this modern university system is all wrong. It makes its students selfish and ungrateful." Father Harrington agreed that punishment was just. But could Northwestern not have devised something "which would not have interfered with his career?" Such as to bar Son Harrington from extracurricular activities, make him take more courses? Sadly said Father Harrington: "If he is a hobo now, the university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Product: Hobo | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...belief that the title Crusaders, used by one of the anti-prohibition organizations, is not only misleading but also inaccurate, Professor T. N. Carver, professor or Political Economy, declared in an interview yesterday afternoon, that such a misrepresentation would indicate that the movement is one of selfish rather than social motives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carver Raps Crusaders Declaring They Have No Right To Use Misleading Title--Movement One Of Selfish Motives | 11/19/1931 | See Source »

Despite this progress, surprisingly rapid since 1902 and surprisingly sane, the chasm which separated the educated privileged classes from the uneducated masses has not yet been fully bridged. Much remains to be done before the selfish old system which reserved education for the privileged classes is finally overthrown, but it is only fair to say that today both the "public schools" and the universities of England, old as well as new, are open to talent, no matter what the accidents of birth. At Oxford it has been recently shown, "out of 1,263 male students who matriculated in the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford Professor, Formerly at Princeton, Compares English and American Education | 10/28/1931 | See Source »

...negligible in comparison with the evil worked on administrative policy, seems to indicate a trifle of uncertainty, of lack of self-conviction, on your own part. I do not like to see either you or President Lowell practice intellectual acrobatics, or, what is worse, fall back on a safe, selfish administrative policy in order to escape a necessary, though unpleasant, task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...political church, which "either follows the dictates of an ecclesiastical head . . . or foists upon the free and sovereign people of our nation a program of selfish and sectarian ambitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Follies | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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