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...John Jay Chapman, writing in the December "Atlantic" on "Our Private Schools," finds that college entrance examinations have done more than anything else to destroy education in the secondary schools. Hardly less important as a contributory cause, he thinks, is the shift in emphasis from teacher to text-book...
...must be obvious that a Senator cannot make every effort to defeat and destroy a Party and, at the same time, participate in its conferences, deciding upon future policies. I do not question Senator LaFollette's clear right to head a new Party; but, in my judgment, that clearly disqualifies him for membership here. I do not imagine Senator LaFollette desires to participate in our conferences...
...going to pursue any aggressive foreign policy and any suggestion that what has happened in Egypt is merely a veiled attempt to destroy the independence which we gave to Egypt some time ago is founded either upon misunderstanding or else upon deliberate misrepresentation...
...account of articles in magazines. Dr. Straton averred that religion had redeemed him, but that such articles continue. He particularized The World's Work, The Century, the staid Atlantic Monthly as prints that are putting "into the literary and intellectual pot enough poison from their wild gourds to utterly destroy the people...
...avocation, and soon spends his time in resting up for another dinner. Christopher Morley recognized this when he said: "I am and always have been too well fed. Great literature, proceeds from an empty stomach." Michigan must be careful not to be too lavish, or it will destroy that which it wishes to foster...