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...harmony with the conception of an institution of learning. As a result, there are those in the faculty, and there always will be, who will be sniffing suspiciously at this lusty growth, which seems to them at times to be threatening the parent tree. At times the suspicion that something is wrong becomes a conviction and then there is much ado for a time, as the most alarmed of the faculty vent their wrath against manager or player...
When to weeks had elapsed without an open session of the Armament Conference there were signs of impatience and suspicion among those who were eager for news of its doings. It seemed to some of these that decisions has been unnecessarily delayed, and to others that perhaps there were sinister influences at work to prevent any real decision whatever. This impatience, if not the suspicion, was natural even though not quite reasonable...
...recognition of the fact. It is absurd and unfair to say that his remark was "tactful", for that is not the spirit in which it was intended. He meant is as he stated it--a truth, which if only recognized by others, would clear the air, dispelling clouds of suspicion and dislike on the part of the undergraduates, and claiming for a more united University the honest ardor which the graduates are begging the opportunity to show and receive acknowledgement and respect therefor. MONROE HEATH...
Difficulties which have developed in the way of cooperation between the colleges and universities and the workers educational movement are discussed at some length by Herbert Feis of the University of Kansas in an article in "School and Society." The suspicion of some of the leaders in workers organizations that the universities would use any opportunity to teach conservatism rather than to encourage independent thinking is balanced by the assumption in many academic circles that the movement is "merely a subordinate branch of radical activities." The result is a deadlock and failure to make available facilities of the colleges which...
...before." A few well-chosen secrets discreetly disseminated in the regions of the Square might work great benefits in the undergraduate ranks. But any aspiring author who would disclose the mysteries of officialdom must prepare to go down to the future all unheralded and unsung. For the fame of suspicion would, upon the appearance of such a book, most certainly pass by and descend with a gentle thud upon the long-suffering shoulders of Terry...