Word: shun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Education is cited as a panacea for all our ills, but how can education fulfill our hopes unless there is more monetary stimulus to draw able men into the teaching profession? At present, there are innumerable examples of young college graduates, eminently fitted for an academic life, who shun such a future solely because they are unable to forego the comfort for themselves and their families which they are able so easily to earn in other fields...
...large aspects of government in a way that a purely technically trained man can not. Moreover, there are to be found in the colleges those men whose independent incomes make it possible for them to take a disinterested part in government. At present, however, many able university graduates shun political life. The reason, for this is two fold...