Word: shibboleths
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...absorbing than producing ideas, . . . and those seeking only the master's degree now generally required for teaching" great freedom obviously will not do; they must be brigaded in some degree, and put through the routine of classes. Particularly is this true of candidates for the M.A. degree, an archaic shibboleth which is kept mainly because of the requirements of state secondary school boards. The shibboleth may be continued for those who are able to study for only a year, or as a preliminary for those who wish to take the doctorate and lack the proper college background. It would...
...That no individual has any influence in determining the election if he votes a minority ticket. Excalibur in two-edged here, and cuts both him who uses it and him whom it is used against; no single vote, Republican, Democratic, or Socialist, ever counts. On close examination this shibboleth against the Ephraimites of socialism is irrelevant, except as it gainsays any action at all, on any side. Innovation must always come about by infinitesimal stages, and in history, changes start in the footnotes and work up to the chapter heads. By the sterile view in question, the efforts...
...give readers a foretaste of mischief to come. It comes: should the supply run short in one hemisphere there is bound to be plenty in the other. The doughty general craves trouble as a cat craves fish, can nose it from afar. Do or die is no mere shibboleth to him, but sober truth. "For certain men not to do is to die, to die a spiritual and very disagreeable death. From such a death I have been running all my life...
This preoccupation with nutrition promises to be a shibboleth with dentists. Dr. Boyd S. Gardner of the Mayo Clinic also touched on it in going to other topics. Said...
...that the Harvard Fund proves its value. For two years the money received through it has been turned over to the University with no questions, no restrictions. With each year more alumni find this a convenient method of giving. This is one matter to which the old shibboleth "No gift too small, and none too large" applies. The plan doubtless has its defects, but thus far it has functioned satisfactorily, and its increasing popularity points to future success...