Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object the freedom of Ireland. There was good reason, too, for their being secret. "All small nationalties submerged in great empires tend to develop a subterranean political life. It is impossible to fight great battles openly, and the very character of their ideals makes open propaganda difficult. Whatever may be said against the secret societies of a generation ago, their members were not self-seeking and their ideals were defensible. "There...
There are at least three major factors which tend to emphasize the distance between school and college. The first of these is the sacrifice of sound education to cramming for entrance examinations. The college must have some way of judging its candidates, and this way has resolved itself into the College Entrance Board Examinations. The secondary school must either follow the dictates of preparation set by these tests or else fail to fulfill its raison d' etre of getting men into college. All of this means that more emphasis must be put on getting men into college regardless of keeping...
...last ten years the Noble lecture has been used as an occasion to invite visiting scholars and churchmen from England to Harvard in the hope that by their speaking here they might tend to establish closer relations between English and American churches and universities...
Some say the reason for such apparent tardiness or sluggishness on our part is that the Yale Faculty is notoriously the most conservative body in New England and that their example is before us, we naturally tend to deliberate. Maybe so, but we think the reason is different...
...Mahatma also bade goodbye to a six-foot sun-blackened, scantily-clad girl of 30, with a shaven pate, who is general supervisor of the headquarters, and would tend his tasks during his absence. Srimati Mira Bai he calls her, but her real name is Madeleine Slade. Once a freckled blonde, she is a daughter of the late Admiral Sir Edward Slade of the Royal Navy. She studied philosophy in several Continental schools, found nothing to inspire her until she read of the Mahatma's labor. Correspondence with him followed; in 1926 she went to India, cheerfully accepted the year...