Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College Office will give special finals beginning next Saturday for the men going to the Fourth O. T. C. and the June under-age camp will naturally not bring forth a unanimous chorus of jubilation from those who will have to take them. They would obviously prefer to vanish from Cambridge without going through the tortures of these tests. It would not be possible nor right, however, for the Office to distribute credit for the year broadcast to such a large number of men without examining them as long as our scheme of education is based on the examination system...
...Persians being dead, their laws are not worth the traditional scrap of paper. So the dulators of our present laws should not exercise in part an authority which they ceased generations ago to exercise in spirit. The Blue Laws may well be stricken with blue lightning, and vanish in blue smoke...
Americans are deeply concerned in the struggle being waged across the ocean. They see old civilizations crumble, ideals in which they trusted vanish. In the work of restoration this nation will have a great part. College students in particular are beginning to realize that the responsibility will rest upon their generation, and that the task of reconstruction must enlist the knowledge and experience of educated...
...oral examination itself is losing much of its arbitrariness. The student who is fairly proficient in both French and German, yet brilliant in neither, may try both languages. And with this granting of two chances vanish the conventional complaints of the unreasonableness of a single passage for translation or the exactions of a particular examiner. The new rules will not make an individual oral examination easier. They will make the system as a whole more fair, however, and will make the ultimate penalty--probation--a serious disgrace for delinquent upper-classmen...
...Powys argued that with Socialism would come an end of graft in public office, because the incentive for private ownership would vanish with the elimination of private property. The speaker's ideal was to have machinery supplant much present human labor, so that men will have shorter working hours and consequently a chance to develop genius and individuality...