Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Most of the opinions expressed by parties to either side of the wet-dry controversy can be liberally discounted on grounds of violent partisanship. But a speech such as that made by George W. Wickersham, chairman of the Law Enforcement Commission, at the Boston Garden Monday night cannot be passed over so lightly. His conclusion that America's policy of legal prohibition has been less successful in reducing alcoholism than the indirect methods employed by England cannot but make the most sincere dry wonder whether his ends might not be better accomplished in some other...
...union between Rumania and Hungary is considerably more than a remote possibility raises issues of paramount interest to students of international politics everywhere. The union of two states, one with a population of two states, one with a population of about sixteen million and the other nine million, cannot but be regarded with concern by all those nations who regard the balance of power in Europe as assured by the present arrangement. The proposed "anschluss" between Germany and Austria, which has been talked of at irregular intervals since the war, and which reached its highest point...
...cannot approach the subject of secondary education simply from the viewpoint of preparation for college. Indeed secondary schools are often criticized because they degenerate into cramming institutions for entrance examinations. Rather the secondary period should afford the pupil an opportunity during the early years to discover under guidance his particular aptitudes, to acquire such a factual knowledge as is essential for his future development, to gain some acquaintance and initial facility with the tools of learning. Intelligent thinking requires imagination and a capacity for abstract reasoning; but it is no less nobly based on ability to command or to discover...
...writing knowledge of the language or if its pursuit in college were not worth while unless it began on a basis of oral and aural proficiency, we should say that linguistic study in the secondary school was only for those possessing a high degree of aptitude. The school cannot make linguistic specialists of its average pupils except at the sacrifice of other things more valuable for the time and circumstances. Yet its students should be encouraged to derive the benefits which language study affords and to become acquainted with the culture of which the language is an expression. To meet...
...college education is adapted only for an intellectual aristocracy, it makes a difference whether the 'aristocracy' is held to comprise the upper 10 percent or the upper 50 percent of the secondary pupils. On the supposition that the definition includes at least more than the former proportion we cannot escape consideration of the 'pupil) whose general capacity is only average. Of such a person superior attainments can be expected only in the field of concentration, and the secondary pupil can hardly concentrate in more than one field...