Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Wailing from a Park Avenue Presbyterian pulpit, Dr. Meiklejohn, director of the experimental college of the University of Wisconsin, covers himself with his usual sackcloth and ashes and vainly questioning, beats the un answering dust. Utterly discouraged with the futility of all educational institutions, this fiery and pessimistic crusader bitterly cites the Chinese famine, the disarmament conference, and the sordid evils of industrialism and finally points an interrogatory finger at the student, idle and ineffectual, at the teacher, cynical and discouraged. Inert ideas, learning unrelated to life, dullness in the classroom are some of the charges brought against modern education...
Wednesday evening at the Harvard Union, each of the above effects will be treated: other possible developments will be discussed. The Debating Council welcomes any question upon the plan and its possible or probable results. Yours very truly. Edward M. Rowe. Harvard Debating Council...
...managed to reduce to a minimum those international controversies which keep an ambassador annoyingly busy at his job. The major issue between the U. S. and Britain, beside trade disputes, was Prohibition and its enforcement on the high seas, but Sir Esme on his departure insisted that this question never created "tension" between the two countries. His final achievement had been in setting the stage for the visit of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to the U. S. last year...
...What more sacrifices are there for me to make to save the companies from the destruction and dismemberment of receivership into which their powerful enemies are bent upon plunging them?" Cineman William Fox asked this question last week-another appeal to his stockholders, perhaps the last before they gather on March 5 to decide the fate of Fox Films & Fox Theatres. Desperate as the Fox appeal sounded, Cineman Fox must have gained at least some slight assurance last week from the thought that his famed and feared Lawyer Samuel Untermyer was bending his gaze on the Fox dilemma. Lawyer Untermyer...
...working machine held the attention of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers at their Manhattan meeting last week, just as he always interests every user of his productive capacities. The particular question which held the engineers was what condition of air-temperature and humidity-is best for man's work. Dr. William John McConnell of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. told them...