Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House, the third state dinner of the season, for the Judiciary, passed off brightly. Chief Justice Taft of the Supreme Court twinkled and chuckled as guest of honor. Three of his Associate Justices were absent-the Hons. Brandeis, Holmes and McReynolds. C. Winding up an agreeable social week, the President addressed the business or- ganization of the government, headed by Gen. Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Budget, hinting sternly that his veto of the proposed tax cut as too large was no impossibility. C. From one Luke W. Duffey, President Coolidge received gratis the deed...
...other points, the Federal Council voted with comparative unanimity. Advocated by Dr. Charles Stedman MacFar-land, general secretary of the executive committee, sex education was encouraged by the council?"in view of the influences tending to lower the ideals of marriage, weaken the sense of marital, parental, and social responsibility and undermine the home...
...warning to "fashionable colleges" that their continued usefulness and prestige must depend upon scholastic standards and not upon social reputation has been given to the Association of American colleges by President A. L. Lowell of Harvard...
...Being president of one of our foremost exclusive universities, Mr. Lowell is in a position to make such a statement without laying himself open to accusations of envy and pride, but we wonder if he has any very clear idea of the "educational merits" of the schools outside the social register...
...load as they can bear. Our educational system includes, and apparently must continue to include, scientific, industrial and commercial instruction, which is in no distinct sense a part of the systems of Europe. It is universally admitted that, in all matters related to language, to literature, to purely social culture, the French lycees, for example, carry their graduates as far as does the sophomore year in our colleges. But the education, truly admirable in its kind, which the French lycees, give, is almost purely literary. In order to match it in this country, we should have to present everywhere...