Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Secretary Hughes prevailed on acting Governor Davidson of Texas to permit Mexican Government troops to traverse part of Texas in passing from one field of operations against the Rebels to another. The ticklishness of the situation is that Americans in Mexico or along the border may suffer if the ire of either faction is aroused. So far Mr. Hughes has supported the recognized Obregon Government; it is impossible to say how long the policy may be continued without arousing the active enmity of the Rebels...
...factor in inspiring serious intellectual activity--and while personality can never be suppressed even in a printed pamphlet, the spoken word is a better medium for inspiration than the written. The mental curiosity which is satisfied with a stereotyped lecture cannot be great. And when the colleges begin to suffer from the competition with the People's Institute, and feel themselves turning slowly into laboratories, they will feel also the necessity for putting increased life and vitality into their courses...
...these,* subtitled His First Biography, is by a Massachusetts politician who served in the Massachusetts legislature with the now President. The other?, called A Contemporary Estimate, is by the political columnist of the Boston Herald. Both are in the nature of biographies. Both suffer from the fact that Mr. Coolidge has never been at pains to provide good material for a Boswell or a Macaulay, and hardly less from the lack of a true Boswell or Macaulay...
While this plan might be criticized as one which would admit only good students, the "more acquisitive" and would exclude "not a few boys of sterling qualities", yet its chief characteristic is that in the main it would exclude only poor students. The boys of "sterling qualities" who would suffer would be a small proportion. And it was obvious that some proportion of the applicants must suffer as soon as it became apparent that it was necessary to limit the enrollment...
...foreign charities suffer from the fact that a man is affected more through his senses than his imagination. Dives never saw Lazarus. Nor did he, clothed in purple and fine linen, have the imagination to conceive of the pain of nakedness and sores. The undergraduate buttoning his overcoat as he hurries to a ten o'clock, may buy a pencil from the old woman crouching on the corner, but the rush of his daily activities blinds him to the starving students of distant Europe who subsist solely on bowls of soup and a tremendous inspiration to learn. Could those poor...