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...definitions in this field is a favorite indoor sport with me and I had the fun of making up another one today. One means by a liberal education the process of so informing and training, and inciting the mind that it will go forward steadily on the road to understanding of the life to which it belongs; so informing, and training, and inciting a mind that you can count on it that that mind will travel, will go a certain way, will keep on going that way as long as it lives. If then we ask, is the average young...
...steamship companies to ascertain that all alien passengers coming to the United States are in possession of proper travel documents and the failure of an alien passenger to present upon arrival the appropriate visa, or re-entry permit, places the steamship company under a penalty of $1000. You can understand that if the Government is lax in requiring the steamship companies to comply with the provisions of the laws relat ing to the documentation of passengers that it would seriously interfere with the administration of the immigration laws. Miss Komarmicka apparently could have secured without difficulty the appropriate documents...
...were not downcast- after all, Iowa was a staunch Republican state and Mr. Meredith, however able, was a Democrat. As Secretary of Agriculture (1920-21), Mr. Meredith was in his element. He awakened scientists to problems agrarian; he set his Department on hundreds of investigations; he made the farmers understand that the services of the Department were both free and efficient...
...build their own buildings, study soil, crops, many another practical subject. Mr. Ford, reported as "intending to assist Berry with a foundation at the proper time," gave forth no interview at Rome. At Cincinnati, he said: "These young folks make very intelligent factory workers, .and are very trustworthy, I understand...
...president did not understand...