Word: without
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Outlook last year lamented his "bad education," on the score that he had given too little time to modern languages and thought. And he was possessed of the Ph.D. degree. At the present stage it would be impossible to decide on what courses to prescribe at least not without overriding a large minority...
...examinations will not extend over three hours. No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express permission of the instructor. A student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer in general charge of the examination...
...general, the term is used to denote something distinct from a command of the tools of one's trade. The lawyer, for example, or the physician, or the engineer, may have a complete mastery of all the technical learning of his profession without possessing culture. This is evident at once when he comes into contact with men of other professions. He may talk profoundly about his own subject, but have nothing intellectual in common with the other men if he lives within the four walls of his own occupation and his vision is strictly limited thereby...
...emotions. There is no unkindliness of his mind towards fairly concrete material. What he is more or less impervious to is points-of-view, interpretations. He seems to lack philosophy. The college has to let too many undergraduates pass out into professional and business life, not only without the germ of a philosophy, but without any desire for an interpretative clue through the maze. In this respect the American undergraduate presents a distinct contrast to the European. For the latter does seem to get a certain intellectual setting for his ideas which makes him intelligible and gives journalism...
...showed in "Believe Me. Xantippe." the Craig Prize Play of two years ago. The present play began life in Atlantic City as "Me and My Dog," being first produced at Nixon's Apolio Theatre on July 12. Renamed, it began its New York run on Saturday, August 28. Without exception, the critics hailed the play as a distinct success. It is the dramatic story of the adventures of two bad boys and a clever dog, the latter being in the New York Heralds estimation, the leading "man", who "played" with finesse and "tact". "Young America" was written round the juvenile...