Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers! ... If this continues a collapse in the industry which provides the South African Government with ?3,000,000 in taxes annually is sure to come, and the country will have to provide for thousands of starving diamond workers whom we now employ...
...relation between student bodies in all colleges. I have heard that the tramp student is becoming common in this country, the student, that is, who visits first one college and then another in his pursuit of learning. I would welcome such an exchange of students if we were only sure that the purpose of such an exchange were the advancement of learning. I believe profoundly in the value of such contacts between students of the East and West, between students of American and Europe...
...course of study in an American college, I take it I have spoken so much on this and so often that I need to say but little. I am quite sure that as to the course of study, we have got to discard the elective system, if we are going to have a community of learning, and have a definite course of study. We must have all the members of the community engaged in the same intellectual enterprise. Our system as it is separates knowledge into parts and sends each member of the community to a collection of some...
...Seniors are asked to be sure to vote. Men whose names were accidently omitted from the list of eligible voters may see J. W. Hurlburt in 17 Massachusetts Hall between 8 and 10 o'clock this evening...
...have our alumni. Are they on the road to understanding? Are they settled in the way of seeking intelligence by what we do to them? I don't think that you can say this. But there is one thing you can count on, one that you can be pretty sure of, whatever else you may doubt, he does not read books. He may read other things and do other things, but he does not read books. He is not interested in that sort of life. And what is his attitude toward his college? What does he understand the college...