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...minds: one superior, the other inferior, one to impress, the other to be impressed; one to stimulate, the other to respond. This response is education. Given all the rest, if the response be not forthcoming, then scholarly research, elaborate equipment, and the best system in the world are meaningless. There is no education. The one fault which in a professor constitutes an unpardonable sin is failure to interest the rank and file of sincere but uninspired students...
...Vanderbilt papers (in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami). "A section of the press of America has long lived and prospered by invading the rights of the individual with a ruthlessness that would do credit to a Hindenburg. By them that valuable guarantee 'Freedom of the Press' has become a meaningless hackneyed byword. To them, printing the amount of a man's income will probably mean no more than commercializing the sorrow of a murderer's mother or the innocent family of a prostitute." ? Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Proprietor...
...psalmist promised to the faithful freedom from both sunstroke and moonstroke. The meaning of the first of these is clear--especially in the hot climate where the psalm was written. But to most people at the present day the second promise is either meaningless, or a reminder of an ancient, and obsolete superstition that the shining of the moon on the face during sleep will cause insanity a superstition still preserved in our word lunatic...
...here more than ever by the varying conditions which greet each new time trial. A faster performance by Captain Wilson's crew today was expected, but an accurate judgment on the relative speed of the Crimson and Blue crews on the basis of time trials to date is absolutely meaningless...
...America going to renounce its cardinal principle of freedom of thought and religious belief? The hard-won victories of the early days will be meaningless and in vain, if the rabid Fundamentalists succeed in foisting the chaos of medievalist upon the land. The great advance of civilization in the last fifty years has been due in overwhelming measure to two things which this cataclysm would utterly destroy--intellectual freedom and the advance of science...