Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...psychology is loss to be commended. They do not, that is, admit into their thinking the one fact which is most germane to the subject--namely, that scholarship is in its very nature a pursuit which is not fostered to any appreciable extent by overt "recognition", that it can thrive lustily even though accompanied by something less than a fanfare of trumphets. Scholarship--not to put too fine a point upon it--is like virtue, its own reward. This may sound like arrant sentimentality: it is the soberest truth. The real stimulus to the life of study...
...Debs has said that he came to prison with his convictions and that he will leave prison with them. I am afraid he will but not alone. I am afraid that six men will have to carry him to that place where all convictions, whether acquiescing or dissenting, thrive unnoticed and unmolested; to that place of infinite and final freedom, the grave. Then perhaps Mr. Mason, and all others who think as he does, will rejoice with me. J. J. DOLX...
That is only what should have been done long ago. Poland, aside from the fact that she needs a seaport of her own in order to thrive commercially, has certain legal jurisdictions over the city, and also the right to improve the harbor, waterfront, railways, and the other public utilities that she may find it necessary to use. But she cannot enforce her laws nor carry out her improvements unless she possesses some means by which she may force her authority. The glaring fault of internationalism as applied to cities was shown at the time of the Red drive...
...answer to the question, Is Cornell ready for a trial of the Honor System? is the answer to the question, Would Cornell know what to do in such a case? It is perfectly clear that the so-called system cannot exist and thrive merely on the threat of expulsion or social ostracism for violation: it can only live when the great mass of undergraduate and particularly upperclass sentiment puts a ban on dishonesty, when Cornell students shall look upon acts of deceit with just as much disfavor as do students of the University of Virginia, for instance. There...
Friendly inter sectional relations can hardly thrive under such cultivation. PAUL MCK PALMES...