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...find a method by which the doctorate may be in the truest sense humanized. Such humanization, like all else of a remedial nature, must, however, come from within. Neither the author of "The Plastic Age" nor a writer for "Liberty" can produce the panacea. They have not the background, dull and dry though it most certainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PH.D. DEGREE | 10/29/1926 | See Source »

...They were sane and dull people, these Washingtons, and excessively normal. Men of this type, in all ages of history, have presented an opaque surface to the fresh thought of their time. They are conservative by instinct. But their vitality .is tough and deeply rooted, and their stolidity is antiseptic. They are immune to the fructifying quality of genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Washington | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...forgets that, though he be at an impressionable stage while at college, the student cannot hope to gain a formula for future existence and a road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious gleam of reality which even the barest learning or the continued application of tobacco, friendship, and intelligence sometimes engenders. Mr. Aswell has too much faith in the American college student as a reformer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENTS PRESCRIBE | 10/21/1926 | See Source »

Henry-Behave!-A stuffed shirt loses his memory, comes to in Congress; dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: List | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Alimony Only (Leatrice Joy). Two couples in a criss-cross complication prove that true love under the direction of the heroine will triumph over mercenary ambitions of less exalted members of the cast; prove also how dull such business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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