Word: hydra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surplus Hydra...
...failure of the steel stands to produce the estimated expense of $170,000., rather miserably letting the association down with a mere bill for $155,000., and to the fact that other items of expenditure have failed to come through as expected, the surplus, a several headed hydra, looms more ominously than ever to puzzle the minds of corporation potentates...
...make clear that he ignored his first duty, which was to resign. Thus he would have avoided the most ingenious and it would seem, most unpleasant--paradox of being ex officio in fact, though not in name. His resolution to be a tongue for every head of the student hydra is ambitious and pathetic...
...Forum President Lowell once more enters into the debatable land of modern education. In his article "Self-Education in the College" he advances his famous hypothesis that all higher education in its best form is self-education under guidance. In doing so he seeks to sever from the hydra-headed contemporary scholastic monster what many prominent educators have come to regard as the caput mortuum of every university, the principle of discipline as distinguished from the principle of letting men think out things for themselves...
...become more the man of leisure, Professor Babbitt's Utopia of Socratic standardization is plainly impossible. He advocates a "classic restraint" as the only solution to the hectic post-romantic ineffectuality of American civilization and appeals to academic circles to exercise their control in the defeat of the hydra-headed monsters of distracting niaterialism and ultimate inefficiency...