Word: defections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been looking at Goethe much as a shying horse looks at a post. In truth, I am afraid of him. . . . There must, as I think, have been some prodigious defect in his mind to let him hold such views as his about women and some other things; and in another respect, I find so much coldness and hollowness as to the highest truths that I feel the Heaven he looks up to is but a vault...
...will be argued that this is a defect in the student, that he lacks the power to interest himself. True! Only the exceptional student possesses this power. But it is not the exceptional student who makes the life of the educator hard. For the majority, the spark must come from without, and the duty of supplying it falls squarely upon professors and instructors...
Does dancing indicate a serious defect in moral fiber...
...series of Persian Letters, the CRIMSON has emphasized the same fundamental defect in the schedule of things which pass current for education. Mirza wrote to his friend Usbek: "My observation convinces me that, in spite of all their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: 'Do something. Get busy. Fill the hour. Make every minute count--never mind what it counts for--and in four years the magic of hustle-bustle will transform us into educated...
...Senate-Reform. Democratic Senator Pat Harrison led off with a story: "It is said that once a fly lit upon the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Crawling across one of the seamlike connections, he flew away to tell the other flies that he had discovered a terrible defect in this, the greatest work of Sir Christopher Wren. I commend this story to General Dawes...