Word: tends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stood for individualism among the students. It makes no attempt to establish an invariable type, either intellectual, religious, or social, to which all must conform or be rejected. Strong and hard to combat are the influences which shame individuality, in matters of thought, dress or manner. Freshman regulations tend to destroy it as well as the prevalent habit of scoffing at anything new or different. No real need of such regulations exists: in the past have not Harvard Freshman classes prospered without them? Why, then, should anyone regret their absence? Of course excessive roughness must be smoothed; but too much...
...first thought the idea seems an excellent one, for naturally enough everyone wishes to escape that clinging parasite which has, from time immemomial, sucked the blood of man. But, upon reflecting, it can readily be seen that the resolution would tend to hinder our diplomats rather than to aid them...
Most people, and perhaps in a peculiar degree the American people, tend in the busy life of the world to save themselves from strenuous thought by taking refuge in the opinions of their associates, of the men in like occupations, of the party or group to which they belong. This saves some of them, indeed, from eccentricity, and from irrational extremes; but it does not absolve men from responsibility for the correctness of their opinions, or save the nation from the consequences of their errors. The fact that others make the same mistake is no excuse. Yet people...
...staged in a sunny English morning room, with walls of yellow and orange, making an attractive setting for the furniture, which is upholstered in blue. For Maeterlinck's "The Blind," the dark, glommy scenery, after the style of Arthur Reckham's executions, will be used. The lighting effects will tend to throw the actors into sharp silhouette...
Although many indications tend to reveal the fact that the Lloyd George government is becoming unpopular and must be soon reconstructed, still the Premier retains his great majority in the House and will continue to do so for sometime to come, even it all the elements of the Opposition unite against him. The belief that the Coalition is built on political sand seems without foundation. Under the leadership of the Welsh wizard there is little doubt that the present government will be sustained in its policy and that England will not be thrown into the troubled waters of a general...