Word: thought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Potent in downing the horrid thought that through Smith and Raskob the Democracy had been led into the camp of Mammon, was the pleasant effect of party affluence itself. Even more potent was last summer's disclosure that "Raskobism's" loudest foe, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, was himself messily involved with a Manhattan bucket-shop (TIME, July 1). At a South Georgia Methodist conference last week the Rev. Bascom Anthony of Thomasville, got a resolution adopted to reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried...
Last week Mr. Raskob replied that the Robinson criticism was "false, vicious, wholly unwarranted and manifestly a political attack." Said he: "I do not gamble in the stockmarket. I have always purchased stocks outright ... in companies that I thought had an attractive future and have held them until such time as I thought they were selling for all they were worth...
Without letting it bother me an awful lot, I always thought of football scouting as being a pretty low device and I wondered why colleges would agree to scout and be scouted. As long as there was an agreement between the A. A's of the different universities, there was nothing much to be said about the situation except that a football scout was a questionable individual much like a cigar-passing Washington lobbyist. I imagined him to be a small, dark haired man with a false mustache and an evil...
...goal towards which all educators of the modern type seem to be atriving is the development of a close relationship between the professor and the individual student. The adherents to this school of thought must have mingled feelings when they look at the statistics of some of the larger courses given in Harvard College which reveal the extent of mass production in education in its most massive aspects...
...situation is not devoid of hope. Even while the language requirements remain as they are, more thought given to them before entering college should do much toward reducing some of these over-weighted courses. And as concerns those taken for distribution, more independence in choosing courses, coupled with the raising of the general average of competency in the section-men, will tend somewhat to overcome the disadvantage of being a mere seat-number in the eyes of the instructor...