Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wonderful Thing" Sirs...
...Permit me to thank you for the very decent and extraordinarily honest treatment thus far of my newspapers and myself by your magazine. It is indeed a wonderful thing to see a magazine take such an impartial and straight viewpoint, allowing freedom and fairness to both sides of the question...
...ideal country America is'? Well, that's all bunk, I tell you. They are just the same human beings as we are, and not all the people go to church either, as you and I dreamed. I don't know why I was so dumb in believing every thing that those God's messengers told us without considering general human nature whatsoever...
That the college is capable of doing such a thing in such a spirit, that, in a crisis in a spectacular major sport, it can avoid the hysteria that is proverbially expressed in the phrase of the over-excited substitute: "Why, sir, I'd die for dear old Rutgers" is a sign that the attitude of the University in regard to athletics is well advanced in a metamorphosis that no one can regret. It is not that undergraduates are being drawn out of an interest in athletics: It is rather that their interest is being transferred from a false dependence...
...colleges, the immense sums raised for their maintenance, the overwhelming tide of students, the rapid turn in Faculty personnel, the incessantly expanding campus, the extending of the idea of going, to college to all classes of the commonwealth these and other improvements have made education a rather perplexing thing. Standards have been built up with enormous difficulty Weathering financial and other perils, the college has made its President a captain at the helm with complete power over his ship's crew. In the midst of this adjustment the student's life outside of his classroom appointments, his leisure...