Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect, this is nothing more than the unfurling of the banner of the House of Osman, deposed by the Grand National Assembly in 1922, and raising the question of the Califate, suppressed by the Assembly in 1923 (TIME, Apr. 28,1923). A Kurdish victory, therefore, could mean but one thing-defeat of the Kemalists, resurrection of the Califate at Constantinople, restoration of the Ottoman Empire. It may well be that the Angora Government is only too conscious of these issues; and in view of the gravity of the revolt (the Kurds number, perhaps, a quarter of the entire population...
...speech which inspired alternate indignation and amusement in the august chamber of Senators has been the most talked-of event in the inaugural day and occasioned violent opinions on both sides. In Professor Holcombe's opinion the "hell without Maria", of which the senators complained, is the best thing which that very self-important body has heard for some time...
...student might at first feel dissatisfied with the notion that his highest level of intelligence has already been reached. But a little thought dispells this uncomfortable feeling. In the first place, the rare thing is not to possess intelligence, but to utilize it. Probably no one will ever know how much the "normal" individual could accomplish, if means were found to extract and utilize all his thinking powers. Since no one does know everyone secretly prides himself that (except in particulars) he "has as good a head as the next...
...civics" classes in the grade schools. And President Goodnow, who has only recently seen the establishment of the new undergraduate department of Johns Hopkins at Homewood, complete with elaborate buildings, extra-curriculum activities and a rising football team, seems to be doubting the value of that sort of thing and looking toward a university of students rather than of people who go to college. There are plenty of places where people can be taught, but there are perhaps too few where a generation that is beginning to need it pretty badly can have new information and better science...
...intelligent and forceful men, and the education of the intelligent and forceful men is therefore perhaps more important still. As Mr. Young said, they need facts; and thus it is that the scientific method, after having weakened, is now reviving the old popular attitude toward learning knowledge as a thing of value in itself. New York Herald-Tribune