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This fact and the presence of professional schools under the same academic roof give a certain flavor to the atmosphere of a university not to be found in a college which stands by itself. The methods of instruction necessarily reflect this atmosphere. But the most distinctive feature of a university is to be found in the calibre of its teachers. These men are themselves learners; they are men who are devoting their lives to acquiring knowledge as well as to imparting it. Whether the instruction be by tutorial conference or by lectures, such teachers have throughout their careers a quality...
...Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill, Private Bristow was ready to get back in uniform, wait the Government's call of the Guard to active emergency service. Said AWOLer Bristow of the most common of fense committed by soldiers: "I hope the sentence won't reflect on my patriotism. If I had not been patriotic I would never have joined the Guard in the first place...
...concern. Her frail net of words is flung to rescue from oblivion only the most available, most familiar things. She writes about the new car, Christmas shopping, the last day of the holidays, the first day of spring, a visit to a country house, where she has occasion to reflect on "the sound of a pack of upper-class English voices in full cry," and to be grateful for a rescuing Colonel Blimp. "Thank God for colonels, thought Mrs. Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue: there was nothing in the world...
...Roosevelt was probably wrong: the run of Democrats will never get to know Henry Wallace very well. When he stares down at voters waiting for political words, which he essentially despises, he will undoubtedly reflect that they ought to be sitting under shade trees, dreaming just for the fun of dreaming. He has said: "... I believe that most of us, once the opportunity is afforded, will discover within ourselves a variety of stimulating and pleasant things to do." He has listed dreaming as one of the worth-while occupations. To Henry Wallace, campaigning in nightmarish 1940 will...
They could reflect that the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness implies that good citizens will work together for the happiness of the greatest number; that in a republic the privilege of self-government imposes the obligation to select representatives who will honestly and disinterestedly govern; that the preservation of democracy requires all citizens vigilantly to exercise their democratic rights, to give generously of their time and their energy, to maintain their self-respect and respect for their chosen Government, to fight for it when necessary. For 20 years political apathy has been common to most republics...