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...This is noble, but not exciting. For what substance has it? The serious-minded and highly specialized young men . . . would be quite likely to find themselves waiting for employment until the moving pictures cater to serious-minded and highly specialized audiences."?The New York World...
TIME Wilmington, Del. New York, N. Y. May 22, 1925. Gentlemen: A year ago, your paper solicited subscriptions from teachers because TIME would be so useful in Enclosed- the is the classroom! reason for discontinuing my subscription. If you cater to the cheap class of thinkers, you should not presume to advertise for classroom teachers' approbation. F. W. CROWELL Rainbow-Hued...
...bias. This trend began during the war and is now predominant. The CRIMSON has no interests controlling it and so it is live where its contemporaries are dead. Its life is mirrored in its editorials, which express a definite, forceful opinion in great contrast to a journal which must cater to its public...
Sentiment may attribute the passing of Memorial Hall to the decadence of the present generation of college students. Such sentiment fails to consider that institutions must cater to the student if he is to approve them. Unless they do, students, who are always realists living in the present, will build new institutions of their own and leave the old in picturesque decay. The closing of Memoria Hall is a natural sequence of the failure to meet the demands of adaptation. University life few away and left Memorial Hall isolated, not because Harvard ceased to need it, but because Memorial Hall...
...Polk was asked whether it was possible for a man to engage in politics now without being forced to cater to the wishes of his constituents in order to retain his office. "It certainly is," he replied. "I can name several prominent instances where a man, either Senator or Congressman, has disagreed with the electors of his state or district on many issues, and voted the way he thought best and despite his refusal, to follow the orders of his constituents has been returned to office again and again. People will uphold an upright man, and admire him, whether they...