Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hear Professor Hooton discuss their evolution in Anthropology I he has evolved to the legs, which will be his subject today. "Qualities of Character" may interest me enough at 2 o'clock to lead me to Psychology A in Emerson D but my own character is too often weak at that perilious after-luncheon hour...
...portentous periods, is solemn and his words are chosen from the old school of eloquence and denunciation. Ever and again in previous Congresses he rose to make interminable forensic attacks on the money trust, on the power interests, on this and that type of oppression of the poor, the weak and the farmer...
...weak, ineffective son of a futile family escapes from the flatness of their life by getting a job as "bellhop" in a hotel. He is good-looking and of a pleasing modesty--his only virtues--and his "personality," as they say in business, brings in easy money and speedy opportunities for mild vice. A rich, but otherwise negligible, uncle gives him a minor executive position in a collar factory. He seduces a girl in his department and a little later is dazzled and attracted by a flapper of the smart local world who being weak in mind and character...
...Overcrowded intellectualism, poor health, and weak nerves characterize schools and universities today", continued Dr. Kellerman. "In the German universities, there are no regular classes, no class spirit, and no college spirit. The professors read technical, scientific lectures and are indifferent as to whether the students attend or not. Faculty meetings are unheard of, the professors being engrossed with their own studies. In neither the Gymnasium nor the universities does one find any form of extra-curricular activities. Parties, social gatherings, clubs, and other forms of group recreation are seldom found to exist in any of the higher institutions of learning...
...truth that only greater continuity and regularity of action can lift the Debating Union from its present mediocrity. It cannot command the confidence and loosen the tongues of the students who are mildly interested in it until its effectiveness is no longer sacrificed to delayed starts, jerky progress, and weak endings...