Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College Office has also spent considerable time in the pursuit of the elusive snap course, and by means of fixed standards of marking and other ingenious devices it has produced a very salutary effect. Hounded in this fashion both by Office and students, the poor snap course has ceased to exist as a separate species. There are still hard courses and easy courses, it is true, but the student will now find that what he gets out of a course both in marks and in knowledge depends very nearly upon what he puts into it in the way of conscientious...
...present conditions and thus both evede disasters and select our lines of progress, the whole modern idea of enlisting experts for the scientific study of national economic problems may as well go to the floor and the nation rub on as best it may in hit-or-miss fashion. Why look before you leap when that means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations that always acted precipitately would save themselves much intellectual effort. But rather than have a mere "decision by speculation" in the railroad strike, Mr. Paine prefers what we had, namely, , a hasty leap into "experience," a creation...
...become a fashion amounting to almost an obsession for a great many Americans, especially those who are young, educated and have sojourned abroad, to deplore the lack of ideals, the "crass materialism," of their native land. The younger they are, the more educated they are, the longer they have sojourned abroad, in so much greater measure is their contempt voiced, till it has become almost the mark of culture and broad-mindedness to hold in contempt the nation's money, lust, and laud to the point of idolization the noble principles and the high ideals of Europe. It is always...
...being fooled. Probably it is the German-Americans who are being fooled, for Mr. Hughes is, after all, an American, and cannot be much in-sympathy with the things for which Prussia stands. He would probably have dealt with Germany about as Mr. Wilson did. It is not the fashion among nations to go to war until certain formalities have been complied with. In the month of August, 1914, the nations of Europe exchanged a good many more notes than Mr. Wilson has exchanged with Germany before they took up arms. What Mr. Hughes would have done, however, is only...
...blame as another for the general outbreak of insanity. This being, apparently, his view, Mr. Russell can hardly complain of his own treatment by the British Government; he must admit that, being in a madhouse, it is natural that the inmates, who regard themselves as sane, should after their fashion treat him as a madman. To escape the rigid supervision of the authorities in time of war, a philosopher would have to detach himself not merely from the point of view of his countrymen, but from that of the planet on which he lives, and go to live not, perhaps...