Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family would replace lectures; and idea-killing assignments would be unknown. The difficulty, of course, has been in finding the earnest students. But now, university education appears to be returning to its sources, and the mediaevalist recalls the scenes in Bologna when the students at the University drove their unpopular instructors from the gates of the town...
...other reasons, such an increase would prove equally unpopular with the banks themselves. Since the war, it has been increasingly difficult to persuade State banks to join the Reserve system, although the large number of such nonmember banks is a fundamental cause of the difficulties experienced in adequately financing agriculture. When member banks can profit by rediscounting, as they can today, such membership holds forth immediate inducements; but when rediscounting is penalized by the relation of bank and market rates, membership in the Reserve system will be discouraged accordingly...
...monitors are human, and they do not find it easy to become mechanical parts of a system. They have sleepy friends, lazy friends, probation friends and, at times, friends who will relieve them of their work. It is not very pleasant to be continually on guard to see that unpopular rules are enforced; to be unsympathetic with a pleading friend, or to turn a deaf ear to well-constructed tales of woe. But the man who volunteers for the job knows in advance what he may expect; his reward, considering how little effort is required, is generous. The least that...
...number of angles who could dance on the point of a needle or the physical relation of Hell to Heaven the proposed canonization of a pious son of he Church always required the appointment of a "devil's advocate" to take up the verbal cudgels for the unpopular side of the argument. This until the connotation changes, will be much the position of the Conservative wing of the newly formed Harvard Debating Union. The present generation shied at the word conservative as a skittish horse from a piece of newspaper, and with as much reason...
...unpopular or not the Conservative Club and the Debating Union, of which it is one unit, if big enough in outlook and broad enough in foundation, have the opportunity to render a great service to the university and to the country. The time is past when college men can sit back above and apart from the rest of the world, to graduate and "go into" cotton, or steel, or architecture...