Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...private ownership and operation can, under the present circumstances, put our transportation system on an efficient basis, no one should ever again question its wisdom. The American people must with peculiar patience give private ownership and operation a fair and thorough trial. To do less would be to invite industrial chaos...
...long ago the CRIMSON published an editorial on what it believed to be the scientific status of investigations of the supernormal, as expounded by Sir Oliver Lodge. This editorial made one feel that it was written upon the basis of less than average intelligence and certainly more than average arrogance. The fact that many men, whose very reputations demand for them respect, have seriously examined the phenomena of psychical research is one of the facts which an intelligent writer on the subject must be expected to know; and it is easy to increase the confusion on the subject...
This year's competition will be extremely short, lasting only until March 17, two days before the triangular debate. The work, too, will be less than in former years, since little advertising will be solicited. These positions should be especially desirable because the first assistant manager, and possibly the second, will accompany the team to New Haven next month. The large number of debates and the southern trip planned for next season will allow both managers to do considerable traveling...
After describing the methods of American universities, Mr. Laski continues: "The result is a student and a university radically different from the English model. The American student, I should judge, has a wider range of facts at his disposal than the English undergraduate; but his thinking apparatus is less keenly trained. His teachers tend to become mere lecturers whom he does not know outside the class room. He is so hampered by the number of lectures he must attend that he has little time for independent thought. His reading is largely the reading necessary for his specified courses...
...refreshing in these days of veiled and guarded language from our public men to hear a frank statement of facts from a man who knows the truth about our government. Last night Mr. Roosevelt arraigned our government on a series of charges that is none the less appalling because it is so familiar. For years we have heard the plea for a national budget, for the introduction of business methods in the executive departments, for fair treatment of government employees. All we have done about it is to criticize and condemn...