Word: vaguer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan. Two hundred names shows an encouraging interest, but it is ridiculous to expect or ask the Freshman class alone to insure a University dining hall. In the first place many of the first year men look forward to election to clubs in the fall and others entertain vaguer hopes. It is too much to expect men in this situation to bind themselves to a club table even for a half year. In the second place it is merely aphoristic to remark that before there can be a want there must be a lack. Freshmen are still being fed regularly...
There are excellent chapters on George Eliot's religion, showing how, though she was brought up an extreme evangelical, under the vaguer beliefs of her later life there was always a deeply religious nature. She loved the past, and the old life there was always a deeply religious nature. She loved the past, and the old life of England, and yet she was one of the first, as she remains one of the greatest, of realists; for she saw through the green and sunny surface of country life to the wretchedness beneath. "The Mill on the Floss" and "Adam Bede...
...issue which the prosecution first raised and then eluded in the first trial - the religious issue. It endeavored not only to reverse Teacher Scopes' judgment but to overthrow the Tennessee anti-evolution law, which latter was the original purpose of Scopes and his defenders, together with the vaguer purpose of educating the public upon the fact of evolution...
...decried, but not studied. It is not of course desirable that the Oxford system be separated in practice from the needs and hopes of those who are remoulding Harvard, but merely that it be studied as something real in itself rather than used as a phrase to spread still vaguer phrases...