Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even though the narrow vote cannot be said to reflect the complacency that evidently pervaded the committee action, neither does it reflect partisan bias. Sixteen Republicans voted for the Democrat, Steck, while nine Democrats sought to keep Brookhart in the Senate. If political preference did play a part, it was not along party lines...
...That's all very well," thought the rural education division, "but the statistics do not reflect the quality of these teachers that are being turned out, nor the type of position that constitutes nearly a fourth of those 742,172 teaching positions in the U. S." Nearly a fourth of all the positions are in one-teacher schools, and "it would be hazardous to guess" how many one-teacher school jobs are accurately described by the following hypothetical advertisement...
...informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American Army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will by example, as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of the blessings of Heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impiety and folly. Added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises...
...with what bloodless generalities a publicist has to make friends. Friend of Eugene Field, friend of bees and bootblacks, bovines and businessmen, icemen and janitors, iris and blue jays, "David Grayson" is almost always proof against his own sentimentalities. These essays on innocent recklessness in the making of friends reflect an enthusiasm that is as far from wallowing as from warping. They were written for private satisfaction; they should cause public delight...
...will be found also initiatory courses, comprehensive in title and often sadly superficial. Their captions picture the grand attempt to inspire an interest in the essentials of current life, a cultural background, and original thinking. "Social and Economic Institutions" at Amherst, "Introduction to Contemporary Civilization" and "An Introduction to Reflective Thinking" at Columbia, Dartmouth's courses in "Evolution" and "Problems of Citizenship", and Princeton's "History, Politics and Economics', all reflect the difficulty of making the horse drink...