Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...phrases most frequently uttered by Harvard Hughes boomers have to do with every subject on earth except the sole (visible and the apparently eternal issue) of a Republican high tariff, sufficiently recognized by the rest of the country. If those three facts are granted, as I think they must be, we are forced to the conclusion that Harvard University, being judged by its majority, is exposing itself to the ridicule of America by taking a political stand based on puerile, prejudice, mob imitation and unreasoning ignorance of economic history. All of which (is more hurtful to us in prestige...
...stated that he did not consider it likely that the disease would spread through the University and therefore did not think a general quarantine at all necessary. He compared the University with the various towns and villages in the surrounding country and pointed out that if there was no fear of contagion in these small communities, nearly every one of which contains at least one case of infantile paralysis, there should therefore be no danger in a University community of over 4,000 members, when only one case has appeared. The rumor that another case has developed is false. There...
...plan their day with detailed modern efficiency. It is well written but it has its value only as a counsel of perfection for those who have a strong purpose which enables them to over-ride all such trivialities as planning and forethought. It is also good for those who think that without genius they may, through system, reach the stars. But for the humdrum it is dangerous. The editorial on football says nothing new but it is gaily written in a style which precludes all serious influence, and which we are accustomed to expect in the Lampoon...
...health and morale of the country and adequate defense for the nation, has unquestionably demonstrated its superiority over any other system that has ever been put forward. Then why not adopt it? is the question in the minds of everyone when he has finished this book. And when we think of the vast sums that are spent each day in luxuries and pleasures and in building magnificent public buildings in insignificant towns, we wonder more than ever how long it will take Congress to awake to the needs of the country...
...word, Dr. Howe's book makes one think,--and from a saner and more logical standpoint than one is generally as customed to think...