Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given me by Mr. House, inciting ambition to be something in the world; inciting ambition to live a straight life and keep sober and to be industrious, and that was the lecture I received from Mr. House, and I have never forgotten it; and I owe to him a statement of this little angle of his life...
...rigging fashioned haphazard by ancient social navigators. He is very scornful indeed of "that part of human nature which expresses itself in what is called morality," but vitiates his discussion by the employment of flippant paradox, unrepresentative facts and overstrained, somewhat splenetic deductions. For example, this very affecting statement: "The objects [not the 'tendencies'] of American civilization are to substitute cleanliness for beauty, mechanism for men and hypocrisy for morals...
When asked to comment upon the work which the Committee has accomplished and upon its conclusions which will be submitted in the report to the Student Council tomorrow, E. C. Aswell '26, Chairman of the Committee, made the following statement...
...Most of the Committee felt that the forward pass was tending to overbalance the game because of the skill of some college teams," was the statement issued to a CRIMSON reporter, by F. W. Moore '93, Harvard's representative on the Committee. "We decided that we needed something to check the overuse of the pass. Football was resolving itself into a game of basketball. The new rule was merely adopted to curb the so-called 'wild' passes which usually feature the end of a close game. It will not effect the use of legitimate forward passing...
...essence President Frank's statement constitutes a brief for the liberal college. He sees the elective system as the symbol of the confusion which has befallen education and society alike with the increasing complexity of civilization. Unable itself to sift the mass of new knowledge the university shifts to the student the onus of selecting his own studies. The modern institution of learning thus becomes a vast intellectual cafeteria at which the immature student orders a la carte and suffers indigestion for his folly. In remedy President Frank suggests abandoning the elective system and the futility of smatterings, and teaching...