Word: welling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven years ago has been to advance funds at the current investment rate to deserving but needy students. The sum of a half million dollars has already been awarded, with character as the sole collateral, and the results have been so gratifying that the administrators of the fund are well justified in stating that the practice has changed from pure philanthropy into a sound investment for banking institutions...
...saloon back. Why? If the present conditions are, as they say, so much worse than they were when we had saloons, why not have the saloons back? The very fact that they are unwilling to say that they want the saloon back, has a meaning. They know perfectly well that present conditions, bad as they are, are vastly better than they wore in the days of the saloon. To that extent at least prohibition is a success...
Seventh, I have never heard a wet who was willing to discuss the question: Would prohibition be a good thing, economically and morally, for the country if it were well enforced? That, after all, is the real question. Why not consider it in an honest and scientific spirit? A good beginning may be made by reading Sir Josiah Stamp's address before the British Society for the Study of Inebriety on October...
...probable, also, that well organized groups under the direction of an advisor-tutor will make the administration more efficient in imposing its ideas, it will, and its regulations on the student body. It seems to be a principle in the minds of today's higher educators that they, as well as the secondary educators, should have an outfit of morals and a standard of behavior to impart rather rigidly to their charges. Regimenting the students into a routine of dormitory living and eating seems to be as convenient a way as any of propagating the doctrine of the straight...
Last year the Bureau was maintained throughout most of the second half-year, without being much employed, Such an experiment could well be repeated, but its value depends entirely on the consent of the tutees. In teaching while there is still time to learn, the organization should be useful and stimulating; but the accurate compilation of spot passages is, properly, outside its sphere, and the man who aims merely at passing examinations will find it of little...