Word: needful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youth, and to receive a little intellectual stimulation with which to offset some of the stress of our modern world. As President William Mather Lewis has said, the "camel theory" of education, whereby colleges expect their students to drink deeply in their undergraduate days, and then not to need refreshment again the rest of their lives, is completely fallacious. The college must offer a "recharging service" to its alumni whose batteries have run down. It must at least give them the chance to become once more familiar with "books and things," and with "the best that has been thought...
...wisdom we need is that which strives to see questions as infinite wisdom, far above all transitory and personal interests, would regard them...
...given amount, 2) that Russian ergot can be and is being made into safe fluid extracts which satisfy the high standard of the U. S. pharmacopoeia, 3) that the ergot "scandal," apart from Dean Rusby's idealistic intervention, is nothing but a commercial fight, nothing at which citizens need take alarm...
...Madison Square, No. 1 U. S. Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise stirred Hebrew blood with these ringing words: "The day may come when England will need friends in Palestine-they should be the Jews and not the Arabs...
...certain citizens be somewhat startled at the information that the University Film Foundation has completed a moving picture of Massachusetts, it might be well to explain that this is a figure of speech only, and that the foundations of the state are apparently as sound as ever. But neither need this be a source of disappointment to the more sensational minded, for even if the stern New England rocks do not achieve positive animation, the film is of sufficient interest to warrant considerable attention...