Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only laws, state and national, have infringed liberty of expression. Much worse, a marked and very serious tendency has developed in our schools and colleges seriously to limit the free and frank statement of one's opinions and the reasons for holding them. This spirit is epitomized in the recent statement issued by the Board of Superintendents of the Department of Education of New York City, which definitely sets forth the theory that "a teacher is no longer at liberty to freely write, speak, or publish his opinions. We cannot concede that intellectual freedom is synonymous with insolence or vulgarity...
...return to sanity in athletics, scarcely begun in the colleges, gains great impetus among the preparatory schools through the agreement between Taft, Loomis, and Choate, made public today. After a general statement to the effect that sports have gained an undue place in the life of the school, the headmasters agreed on seven specific points where the emphasis might be cut down...
Members of the football team and social service workers are in especial demand as orators for New England gatherings, according to a statement yesterday by officials of the Phillips Brooks House. W. N. Bump '28, Chairman of the Bureau, receives daily five or six communications asking for Harvard men to speak on various topics at local meetings. Many of these letters come from districts as far removed as Maine and Vermont and enclose train fare for the itinerant elocutionist...
Statistics may not actually help matters but they are comforting. When I most every part of the country is wailing against hard times and when banks are closing faster than the government can examine them. Secretary Hoover comes forth with the blithe statement that the fiscal year 1925-1926 has been the most successful in the history of the United States; successful economically, in volume of production and consumption, in quality of imports and exports, and in rate of wages. The nation, according to this report, is in excellent condition. More to the point, Mr. Hoover backs his diagnosis...
...Indian Ideal," "The Chinese Conception," "Bourgeois Marriage," "The Marriage of the Future," "Marriage as a Task," "Love as an Art," "Marriage as a Fetter," "Marriage as a Sacrament." All these improvisations follow a baton wielded with profoundly elaborate care by Count Keyserling in the overture chapter: "The Correct Statement of the Marriage Problem...