Word: destroyer
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...annexation of Mexico by the United States would ultimately destroy the Union. The foundation of a great radical war would be laid. Mexico with its 15 million Indians would be another Ireland. Its value would not be worth the pride...
...always been assumed that the tutor was to contribute something to the education of the student which he could not obtain from the work which he did in courses. To establish a graded system of promotion from the ranks of tutors to the rostra of lecture balls would destroy this primary purpose of the system. It would substitute for the better type of tutor, at present to be found in the History, Government and Economics Departments and in lesser numbers among the other departments, men of the calibre of instructors...
...room-mate, who took the course two years ago, is to be trusted rather than one's own notebook, the professional tutors, who have probably never taken the course at all are to be trusted most of all. The most objectionable thing about the tutoring schools is that they destroy confidence in a man's ability to prepare for an examination by himself; it is doubtful, as some authorities may think, that they enable even their most ardent devotees to go through Harvard without doing a sizable amount of work...
...significant for the fact that President Cousens not only officially endorses it, but appoints the committee and organizes it as a class in education. The standard of administrative and faculty cooperation thus set is one that was first adopted by President Hopkins of Dartmouth and should do much to destroy the suspicions or even hostile attitude toward student interest in his own education with which the new awakening was at first greeted in official quarters. It is a well known psychological fact that movements such as these. If actively discouraged, ignored, or condemned, become subversive. They tend, in other words...
...Mellon machine in Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia, men who depend for their living and their power, on liquor, crime, vice. These are the men the magnates buy. These are the men they protect from time to time against the revolt of honest citizens who would otherwise destroy them...