Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is mention of integrity in the statement and this I consider pretty trite as to me it seems an elementary assumption that in this stage of American, progress, personal Integrity is a part of the concept "presidential candidate". Would anybody with professional training venture to impugn the honesty of either Mr. Smith or Mr. Thomas...
...Professor Holmes supports Hoover as candidate with the most integrity"; when I read the above in this morning's CRIMSON, Professor Holmes' stock dropped pretty low in my estimation. However I was happy to find that his statement contained no such obnoxious comparison or weighing of the candidates' honesty. Certainly he has been much maligned by the writer of the caption...
...hundred fifty four Harvard students cast ballots in College Humor's first college straw vote, the balloting being divided, Hoover 99, Smith 55, according to a statement from that magazine released yesterday...
...rose colored half of his bifocals. In a recent article in the North American Review he vigorously applauds the decision among hosts of undergraduates to devote only a compulsory minimum of time to their studies and lavish the remainder upon outside activities. He makes the plausible statement that the prepondering majority of college students have not the capacity to pursue bookish knowledge. Certainly there is support for this view, but there is also an increasing body of evidence that the development of such a capacity is not beyond a very large proportion of those who now prefer a life...
...study the unfolding of this thought, for there is an ever greater flow of students to the graduate schools who are trying to make up for the time wasted at some college conducted on Dean McConn's principles of nihilism. Time and again from these people is heard the statement "I never knew what study was until I came here". Obviously one cannot like study if he doesn't know what it really is; and an acquaintance with the vitality of knowledge is not possible to those whose pursuit of it has been but a lifeless travesty...