Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most serious defects in Harvard today is the type of man who has a position of "assistant" in some of the courses too large for the professor or instructor to handle alone. Out of twenty-one "assistants" with whom I have come in contact I have found only eight really good men, five mediocre men, and eight who were very poor. These last eight had no right to be in that position...
...address to the daughters of Eve at Wellesley he intimated that in eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge we have not partaken of what was forbidden, as did our first parents, but have merely eaten "more than we can digest" and are suffering a no more serious consequence than "a nightmare of disillusionment." We have had an "orgy of idealism," an extravagant faith in "a perfectibility to be brought about by law." If as been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable us to distinguish between...
...Popular recognition of the value of tutorial work has become far too general among Harvard men for them to bother with any very vigorous attack upon a society which still places its emphasis upon a form of effort which has always been the delight of a certain serious sort of adolescent mind...
...interested to know who and his wife are expecting offspring find out in the Graphic's "Your Broadway and Mine" every Monday. When the offspring arrives, its sex is immediately disclosed. When Gossiper Winchell is flayed for a statement, he says "sorry" the next day-but only when serious consequences are threatened. Otherwise, he says nothing...
Resigned. Dr. Ozora Stearns Davis, 62, of Chicago. Congregational Minister; as president of the Chicago Theological Seminary; as Moderator of the National Congregational Council. Reason: serious illness.* Dr. Carl Safiord Patton, homiletic and practical theology professor, was elected to succeed Dr. Davis to the presidency. But he declined, preferring instead the pastorate of Los Angeles' First Congregational Church, whereupon his 1,750 new parishioners assembled, cheered in unison, voted a new million-dollar church...