Word: implanted
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...choice of the opening wedge should, however, be made with the greatest care. "You can drive a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". Forcefully to implant the recalcitrant lad in the midst of a pile of "classics" is likely to be fatal. He must be nursed along from old tastes to new. There are, fortunately, plenty of books possessing the intensity of action of the "dime novel" together with that cleverness of style which somehow creates an atmosphere of reality lacking in the latter. Men like Kipling, Mark Twain, and, above all, Stevenson will almost infallibly...
...Socialists are striking at the foundation of Americanism when they attempt to implant their Utoplan theories in the immature minds of the young men and young women in the colleges and universities of America," said Charles D. Orth, President of the National Security League, "Institutions of learning are established primarily for the dissemination of knowledge, which is acquaintance with fact and not with theory...