Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week the ever present discussion of the worth of a liberal college education has taken an up-curve. And as usual, the debate has been marked by the need of definition, and by the fact that the participants are talking at cross purposes. Much publicity was given the statement of Messrs. Barron and Babson that "New England colleges were failures" because they did not contribute to the prosperity of that section of the country. Taking this as an indictment of education, the pedagogic replies were numerous; of which the address at the University Club in Boston by President Hopkins...
...Politicians in other states (New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ohio) Senator Walter Evans Edge of New Jersey expressed his disappointment over President Coolidge's withdrawal by a silence which seemed to say that he favored an uninstructed delegation. But last week, out came Senator Edge with the following statement: "Speaking personally, with the President eliminated, I heartily favor the nomination of Secretary Hoover...
...work of the graduate adviser will be entirely individual. He will be supplied with a statement prepared by the student and a report from the Dean regarding the man's work in the School. Based on this and the experience of the adviser, who must be a graduate of at least ten years standing, it is believed that great help can be rendered to students and recent graduates...
...this statement, there lies the fallacy that the exercise of thousands is found in watching the contest of a hundred or less through a series of sedentary Saturday afternoons in the fall. It is an old story now to insist, for all the excitement and tradition that is bound up in November battles, that intramural sports should have been substituted for the word football in the two statements of Major Griffith, but it is an insistence that has gained tremendous strength at Harvard, and is finding a still precarious place at other colleges...
...armed with axes, the Evening World says flatly, "It is incredible that any people, not abject slaves under the rule of tyrants, will tolerate such infamies indefinitely. It this is what Prohibition means, then it is time to get rid of Prohibition." To the student of American history, this statement will have a familiar ring, but events seem to justify it. It was to the tune of a number of contemptuous cartoons that the lid dropped on Boston during the New Year's celebration, and the warning that chemists would be arrested if they gave analyses of alcoholic beverages, aroused...