Word: mightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...innocently interrogative, wishes to know whether a deficient sense of justice in "the radicals" relieves the government of the duty of dealing justly with them. Had one not read the recent correspondence in your columns. dealing, theoretically, with the rights of aliens and citizens to free speech, the question might seem irrelevant. Actually, an answer is needed to clear the air; and the answer, Mr. Wood, is "No: not in civilized countries at present." SYDNEY FAIRBANKS...
...Annual Report to the Board of Overseers, stresses the importance of a general education as a training for life. His words should strengthen the conviction of those college men who are confronted with feelings of restlessness and misgivings that they are wasting their time here in College when they might be preparing for a trade...
Harvard men, who have watched these buildings rise almost next door to them, feel strongly the significance of Dr. Maclaurin's death. They wish he might have continued the inspiration which only men of his character can give. And with President Lowell, they wish to express to Technology their deep and profound sympathy in the loss she has sustained...
...Latin, and History. The chief obstacle is the college entrance system. Under the present requirements, the school devotes its whole ener-by to cram into a "dull" brain a certain type of knowledge to which it may be entirely unfitted, wholly ignoring the fact that the most "stupid" boy might be able to put the teacher to shame in the workshop or studio,--in a subject in which he has received no encouragement from his school. So long as present requirements exist, the school must continue to prepare its students for college, instead of preparing them for life...
...Materlinck also expressed himself as greatly pleased by the production of the "Blue Bird," Perhaps his best known drama, as an opera in New York. One of the most important reasons for Maeterlinck's making the trip at this time was that he might be able to witness the world premier of this recently completed opera...