Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more the duty of decent citizens to try to make an improvement in the government of their country, and stupid because the slightest investigation will show any intelligent man that the widespread stories of American political dishonesty are almost always without foundation. In those cases where corruption and bribery have been clearly demonstrated, it has invariably been discovered that a group of the most successful business men of the community have combined to achieve the election or appointment of a corrupt man to a comparatively small position for their private profit. It is my firm conviction that except for certain...
...answer the question which doth appear to us when we reflect upon how many there be among us who have not learned to relish the fruits of knowledge. 'How dull,' saith the uncultured as, yawning and stretching they emerge from the halls of learning. Wherefore must we abide these stupid dispensers of insipid facts. They interest us not with their long dissertations upon the doings of kings...
...unseeing, so it bespeaketh a mind of little spaciousness in him who will not bestir himself in the task of enlightenment. If the discourse of the learned professor interesteth not the common student it is not the latter who is alogether at fault. Perchance the lecture is indeed stupid, or perchance the student has not ever been awakened to the significance of learning...
...people" are unusually stupid. Newspapers warn them of impending danger day after day; yet like the mouse exploring the depths of the sinster, red wooden trap, they persist stubbornly in following prejudice rather than good sense. Today if Mr. Murphy wins as he deserves to, it will be in spite of those who are "die-hard" Republicans, men as well as women...
...except by written examination. The chief difficulty lies in defining "personality" or "well-rounded development". What is it the prospective student must or must not have? To one man, the "prep" school graduate may appear a model youth of great promise, while another is likely to find him singularly stupid. To fancy that a certificate of rating will accurately pigeonhole a man, indicates a high degree of optimism if nothing else...