Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world-literature and the other arts, and with the major concepts of philosophy; and we submit that no youth left free to wander through the college catalogue is likely to compass the fundamentals in this broad field of knowledge. Indeed, it may as well be said that the thing can not be done; for what results can we expect from a system of special courses and free election which abandons to immature and undisciplined minds a labour that is almost beyond the strength of the strongest man of our time--the labour of selection and synthesis...
...others at least, Harvard indifference is really Harvard manifoldness or Harvard individualism a philosophy of live and let live, freedom of thought and speech and action carried to the furthest reasonable limit. And so those who believe in Harvard and its ideals make a virtue out of the very thing which the critics paint as the darkest vice...
...facts. Let our faith and our reason be kept apart, as Kant recommended some two hundred years ago, for neither is to be trusted when it wanders from home. It matters not what belief tells us about how, or when, or where this, or that, or the other thing happened in Biblical times, but it does matter what we believe about our God; nor does it matter what our reason may have to say about its enemy. Enemy? No, brother! Let there be a truce. DEAN WOOD...
...thing the smoking habit does not seem to be so prevalent in the class of 1927. Each year statistics have been collected in regard to the number of men who smoke, and although these figures may not be absolutely correct, they are at least comparatively accurate. 32.5 per cent of this year's Freshmen class are smokers while the percentage in 1921 was 48 per cent and in 1922 was 37 per cent. There is probably some slight tendency to a decrease in smoking due to an increased participation in athletic exercises. In one of the graduate schools, 53 percent...
Senator A. Owsley Stanley of Kentucky, another Democrat rose to praise the deadlock: "What Democrat, what patriot, what lover of his country could ask Congress to put this thing [the Republican majority] in motion again? Do we want another railroad bill? Do we want to put more burdens on the backs of the poor and relieve still more coffers of the rich...