Word: flatterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been active in the American Civil Liberties Union and its predecessor, the National Civil Liberties Bureau, and in consequence I flatter myself that the government has an unusually complete set of reports of my speeches. For further information you might consult the Department of Justice. That the speeches must have been rather poor is proven by the fact that I have never been indicted...
...teacher become a propagandist and that the college become a school for a particular theory. Time was when such schools existed and students traveled from one to the other to get a universal point of view. They were the schools of Greece and of the middle Ages. We flatter ourselves that we have advanced in many thing, among them--education. But it is beside the point to question whether this is a better or worse system. The fact remains that the vast majority of students go to but one institution and expect to be informed on all the concepts that...