Word: utters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evolution to account for the origin of man, those present at Dr. Straton's recent address could hardly fail to see the significance of that meeting. There was evident an emotional intensity which showed that the students realized the importance of religious problems, but their questions proved their utter helplessness to deal with such problems. Isn't it rather illogical for a student, who in other subjects insists that those to whom he listens shall be of recognized authority, to settle his own attitude toward religion without even trying to find out the truth of the matter...
...autobiography will be read by thousands because I've already dipped into it-it is the chatty story of a woman's life, a rather unusual woman, told with utter frankness. There is no false attempt at cleverness. Sentiment has its due place. Curiously enough, Mrs. Daviess says that she has received more letters from men than from women in response to the serial publication of her narrative-and that most of them have been remedies for rheumatism...
Morton Arnold '25, speaking next for the negative said: "These methods such as psychological and intelligence tests would tend to blurr and obscure the whole system of scholastic education. What would be the result? The secondary schools would immediately see the utter folly of trying to train pupils to pass other than scholastic tests." Arnold summed up his argument admirably when he said: "We believe in selecting for colleges those men who have proved to be intellectual leaders in the secondary schools...
...members of the Class of 1926, found an utter dearth of information concerning our duties which made our tasks doubly difficult. We hope that such a situation will never again arise and that each class will follow our example, so that in succeeding years Freshman Executive Committees may look over the reports of those who have gone before, take advantage of their suggestions, and profit by their mistakes...
...20th Century came and eternal harmonies continued to vibrate in the mind of the Bishop. He could not fully utter them. His talk became a little wild. Men did not love one another utterly. His talk became wilder, and began to grate upon vestrymen and other bishops with bank accounts. At a general meeting, in Boston, he was nearly mobbed. Finally his health broke, and in 1912 he resigned, went to live in Galion, Ohio, the Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, ex-Bishop of Arkansas...