Word: present-day
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Present-day liberties make it a little too easy, sometimes, for men to miss advantages simply by failure to see them. The liberties are right; unlike a prescribed course of study or Fresh man athletics, the benefit of religion departs as soon as the element of compulsion enters. That truth was learned here nearly forty years ago, when "morning prayers" were first made voluntary. And furthermore, the chapel loses nothing by the absence of those who fail to make its acquaintance. It exists for those who choose to enjoy such a "luxury", and as long as it serves them freely...
Professor Murray '99, who spoke next expressed the belief that the drama did not receive justice at the hands of many present-day educators. Professor G. P. Baker '87 was not able to be present. Mr. Burke Boyce '22 and President Brown spoke on the technical aspects...
...Wells, historian himself by avocation, in bewailing the absence of glamour from modern times, is quoted as commenting recently; "there is not more history, nothing but line typed records and political economy!" The point raised by this somewhat cryptic remark is one which has divided present-day historians into two camps as widely divergent as the Big Endiaus and Little Endiaus of Lilliput. Certainly there has never been a time when the raw flux of history and romance has poured out as plentifully as today. The question is one of treatment...
...United States Bureau of Education in 1917 was due to the work of one of these funds. In a great many other cases, the work of the endowment funds has been of the most vital assistance to governmental agencies in preparing reports and carrying on investigations in regard to present-day educational problems...
...present-day passion for whole-sale analysis the undergraduate is serving his turn. The "what" and "why" of everything the college man does is sifted, weighed and from it are deduced generalizations to fit a pattern rather than an individual. Those of us who are occupied in the pursuit of parchment letters to add to our names are all lumped together--by a writer in the "Transcript" as "that painful figure--the college boy." The same philosopher concludes his dissertation by advising us that the sooner we accept with "strong humility" Thackeray's dictum that at twenty...