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...number of the Bean Pot, you have, I feel, gone beyond all bounds. You have filled the pages with material obviously intended to cast ridicule upon the one organization of Boston University which directly represents your nation's honor. You have adopted the tone of the pacifist, the slacker, the renegade, and the traitor. You have produced a magazine which is a disgrace to Boston University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBERAL CLUB ATTACKS SUPRESSION OF BEAN POT | 4/15/1925 | See Source »

...result of the deepened interest in intellectual pursuits must not be overlooked," says Professor Moore. "To do a man's best, according to his ability, in whatever he puts his hand and mind to, is properly reckoned a sure test of character; the slacker and loafer are rightly despised. To stimulate young men to do their best in college is to help them build the character that should result from a college education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOORE FINDS STUDENTS ARE MORE INTELLECTUAL | 4/10/1925 | See Source »

...result of the deepened interest in intellectual pursuits must not be overlooked. To do a man's best, according to his ability, in whatever he puts his hand and mind to is properly reckoned a sure test of character: the slacker and loafer are rightly despised. To stimulate young men to do their best in college is to help them build the character that should result from a college education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOORE FINDS STUDENTS ARE MORE INTELLECTUAL | 4/10/1925 | See Source »

Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, slacker: "In Berlin I filed a damage suit for $150,000 against Corliss Hooven Griffis, an American Army officer now in jail at Mossbach in connection with an attempt to kidnap me last Summer (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

Edsel Ford is almost as big a man as his father, and has more breadth of mind and understanding. He is completely whitewashed from the charge of being a slacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who IS Henry Ford? | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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