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Undaunted by the fact that he had an angry President on his hands was "Admiral" Gardiner. Well did he know that any such inquiry as the President proposed would help to advertise his Big Navy idea, would stir the public mind on the naval deficiencies he honestly believed to exist. His only comment...
There are many professors at their desks who can stir the young freshman soul to passion and effort, who can light the flame and let nature do the rest. There are young specialists who probably are poor teachers, because they are specialists and because they are young. New York Times...
...recognized phase of youth to want to stir up things. We, who have been youths ourselves, would not have it otherwise. This sort of playful plotting often makes for progress...
...worldwide stir that these remarks created was a three-day wonder. Upon looking up Professor Shaw, the impressionable Press found that he was a Professor of Philosophy and 60 years old. Not only that, he was a ninth lineal descendant of John & Priscilla Alden, author of a learned book, The Road to Culture * and repeatedly voted by students the most popular man of the N. Y. U. faculty. The only strange thing found in his history was his walking 15 years ago from Philadelphia to Manhattan, 90 mi. in 23 hr. 40 min. Editors telephoned, telegraphed, cabled and radioed last...
...print it. Last week some New York University students who work as "campus" correspondents for the local dailies were be wailing the scantiness of university news. Professor Shaw dug up and gave them his diatribe against whistling. "I never dreamed such a thing would cause such a stir," roared he last week. "But it's a good thing. It keeps the world from becoming too much upset over such things as the gold standard and the world series...