Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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There is no doubt that in the junior and senior years at most of our big universities a certain proportion of the men become restive under the lecture system. This feeling is certain to grow and unless the colleges respond to it in some way their hold on the more intelligent men in America and on the intellectual life of the country is sure to weaken. Their already feeble resistance to technical education will become a rout. The trouble with the lecture system is that it keeps a chap at 21 or 22 working on his old prep school subjects...
This faithful support of the League shows beyond doubt that, besides having much perseverance and industry. God is a very clever fellow. His personal campaigning for the League should be rewarded by a position in Governor Cox's cabinet, if the Governor be elected. Of course, such a position would be purely advisory. It is too much that one as inexperienced in the intricacies of Democratic political machinery as is God, be trusted with much executive power...
There is no doubt that it is often inconvenient for commuting students to cast their ballots. It frequently means five minutes trouble,--time which they may perhaps more pleasantly spend in berating the conditions which give them no hand in the administration of college activities. As it seems conclusively shown, however, that the more active members of the classes never fail to find time to vote, and, being human, invariably vote for their friends, the sole method of getting out of the rut into which college polls have fallen is to continue the present more or less compulsory participation...
Shall we learn nothing from experience? Can there be any doubt in our minds but that "the best we can hope for (from the Republican and Democratic parties) is a rotation of good intentions"? Most of them never carried out. It seems obvious that if we have any spark of knowledge of actual conditions. If we want to see Christian brotherhood brought about by a just economic and social order, which it not possible unler the present system if we want to see Justice, Liberty and Christian Brotherhood realized in our international, as in our personal relations, there...
...philosophy and the like, with perhaps a dash of-fine arts on the side. There is one department, however, that one, curiously enough, whose aesthetic value is perhaps the greatest of all, to which the undergraduate is too frequently a complete stranger. This is the Department of Music, without doubt one of the finest in any university in the country...