Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no correlation between honesty of children's actions and their attendance or non-attendance at Sunday school. In general children coming from private schools were found to cheat less than those from public schools, but this is no indictment against the latter institutions: It is merely a statement of fact regarding the actions of the average child. Furthermore, pupils in progressive schools cheat less on the average than those in conventional schools...
...financial advantage, but a positive detriment according to Dr. Harold F. Clark, Professor of Education at Teachers College. Mr. Clark's two points to prove higher education financially unprofitable are not so revolutionary as his proposed cure. There is, to be sure, some significance in his statement that more men are being trained for certain professions than can be absorbed by them without a consequent lowering of the standards of remuneration. Recognition of this condition is necessary to prevent serious loss, but Mr. Clark's bureaucratic demands for state control of the number of professional students are too manifestly contrary...
...Lloyd George appealed by begging them to turn out a Conservative Government which, he said, had hamstrung England's trade with Russia and provoked the U. S. by bunglesome handling of the Coolidge naval limitations proposal. From this the spellbinder swung through a long transition to the surprising statement that the Conservatives "made a foolish, reckless settlement of the British debt to America [in 1923] without waiting for an international settlement which would have wiped out all debts and started the world afresh...
Last week Bishop Garland had this statement to make: "They all seem to be afraid of hard work. It rather amuses me. I have borne the burden of the work here for the past six years. I am 62 and they are all younger men than I. The diocese has not lost standing. I am still Pennsylvanian enough to say if they have refused, let them refuse...
...year ago, one of the outstanding publishers told me how you and Briton had come to him for advice before starting TIME. Not content with his general statement that it coul be done, he said that he had gone into detail as to how impossible such a venture would be. He then added, 'The only mistake in my estimate was that I had omitted their stroke of genius...