Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state?" The Catholic Church grants no divorce, that is well-known. Neither does it grant an annulment. It announces that a marriage is null, when it is null, an entirely different thing.... The Rota gives an average of eleven declarations of nullity a year, not a very heavy percentage, for a Catholic population of several hundred millions. (There were more than 175,000 divorces in the U.S. last year.) The Acta Apostolicae Sedis, the official gazette of the Vatican, duly reports...
Seldom has a single man achieved such a large reform. Others have tried to do this very thing, notably Thomas Jefferson in his plans for the University of Virgiuia, but Charles William Eliot was the first who succeeded...
Prior to his day the college course was a thing apart by itself--a survival of the past. Its classrooms were the scene of keen competition among a few high stand men; its studies were a source of dignified pleasure to those who had a taste for books. But they had no bearing, or very little, on the life which the student was to lead afterwards. His preparation for politics or business lay in the extra-curriculum activity of the place, not in its direct teaching. Charles William Eliot demanded that the teaching should be interesting; that it should...
...details. To quote a current phrase he "put learning on the map" in more senses than one. To him more than to any other man--I had almost said "more than to all other men--America owes it that her system of higher education is no longer a thing apart by itself a soft of "Ark of the Covenant" too sacred to be touched but a normal part of the life of the nation as a whole...
Princeton has the thing called college spirit to a degree that is almost unmatched. This is not necessarily a compliment. College spirit needs for its strongest expression an attitude in the individual that is a little less than sophisticated; a little less than mature. He must be prepared to swallow unquestionably much that a properly developed sense of humor would reject and to adbicate emotionally and intellectually at the call of the pack. As men grow to intellectual maturity they frankly hesitate to "die for dear old Rutgers," and as colleges grow in size and complexity they attract a larger...