Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function is not to write the University catalog, although you may begin to suspect so. The little matter of review, which I have already mentioned, is in itself sufficient to prevent my filling that office. As to what my function may be, I prefer to leave the reader in doubt. Mere impressions, such as I have recorded here, may possibly have some value. But the masterful words of the professor in Property come back to me, and I quote them in conclusion: "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Mr. Doe is drooling. Kindly draw the sheet over...
...inspire them to work, but upon their ability to turn out at stated intervals a book upon some subject pertaining to their field of research: Because of this system there is a double temptation for professors to neglect their students, because it is more interesting to write books and it is also their best means of winning a larger salary. The result is that the student, as a human being, is almost entirely neglected. . . . I believe a professor should be first a teacher and second a writer...
...Polish woman came to Ellis Island, N.Y., three years ago and was found to be admissible except on one point: she could not read nor write. Her case was taken into court; she was released on bond; went to Brooklyn; studied. Last week, the courts decided against her; she was ordered deported. That she can now read makes no difference. She is Mrs. Jacob Bushbaum of Brooklyn...
...told him about between family prayers. When he grew older and found he was right, he pitied himself for not having been told; posed alternately as "misunderstood" and "no good." As is usual in such cases, he wrote bad verse. He sought liberation on the stage, in journalism, in writing advertising; but found it only, invariably, in willing women. Eventually that escape became familiar; unnecessary. Kenneth settled into his harness, comfortably drawing a wife and two children. Another account of mediocrity in search of an image deserves attention only because Author Smits can, indubitably, write...
...SCHOOL FOR AMBASSADORS AND OTHER ESSAYSpired to write his most important essay in defence of Ambassadors. He finds that from the orators of old they have constantly grown in numbers and importance and that, whereas yesterday they sought the ears of princes, today they seek to tune in to the voice of nations, a vastly more complicated mission...