Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thrilled and awed by almost all he finds at Harvard, this member of the class of 1929 is disappointed because he has been unable to find a single spot or symbol whereat he can point and say: "This is Harvard...
...party lines. Said II Tribuno, usually markedly antiFascist: The attempt rouses not only among the Fascisti but among all Italians the greatest indignation. Whatever party one may belong to, whatever reasons one may have to oppose the present Government, one must admit Mussolini is something more than a political symbol...
Saturday under the influence of the evangelist's preachments the students of Southern Junior College in Ootewah, Tennessee, piled novels, pictures, lipsticks, roughe, and all the tracts on evolution found in the college library in a heap on the campus, and to them touched a match--symbol, supposedly, of faith. Thus from the campus of one American college went the idols of contemporary living...
Perhaps Locarno is a symbol of the realization of this fact. The unwillingness to submit to judicial settlement is conditioned by underlying factors inherent in the existing international system, which persuades nations to decline to submit what they consider important issues to the arbitration of impartial judges. Note the almost universal exception of questions of national honor, independence and vital interests, from arbitration treaties. The judicial process is weakened by a stipulation that there shall be no submission of anything important...
...some extent Mr. Abbott is justified in regarding college board examinations as a symbol of all that is arbitrary and antiquated in American education. The necessity for securing certain grades in certain subjects, dealing only with the bare bones of languages and mathematics, forces preparatory schools into cramming and gives an opportunity to the professional tutor who can get anyone into a given college and keep him in after he gets there. The University's one-seventh plan is an attempt at lubricating the present entrance system; the recent action of the college board itself in planning intelligence tests...