Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chosen, wisely, to attack his problem from the philosophical standpoint, not, you understand, of abstract, empyrean, philosophy, but of that system and ordering of daily life that is in truth the most immediate concern of the more human letters--the Litterae Humaniores of the Scots Universities. "The Achievement of Greece" is, in fact, a study in the humanities. We cannot ask every man to be a Leonardo da Vinci...
...forth very clearly the doctrines of restraint, good taste, and rounded living that are, of all that Greece produced, of the most use to us today. Sometimes one feels that we are hearing a little too learned a disquisition of the Republic of Plato, or of Aristotle's more abstract theories, but such moments are well balanced by detailed and very interesting descriptions of the practical, lived philosophy of the everyday Greek. And much of this is material that the average course of instruction, for instance, does not bother to tell us. Thus a whole section is devoted to their...
...opposition to what is apparently the feeling of the majority of the alumni committee, the CRIMSON has always held with the utilitarians. It has opposed the plan for the chapel, less vehemently it is true, than the suggestions for a purely abstract monument, but nevertheless firmly, because it has felt that a new chapel would prove of value to only a very small proportion of the University and that a neglected memorial would be but an ignominious tribute to those whom it was meant to commemorate. In view of a pressing need for a new gymnasium and an additional Freshman...
...provincialism and prejudice have been swept away by the abolition of Freshman caps. Yet President Butler's admission that "the University . . . is as yet only partially conscious of its place in civilization and of its mission" should spur it to a realization of its ideals. A constant contemplation of abstract virtues enabled medieval ascetics to work miracles, and that method should be effective today. The more frequently leader like President Butler set forth an ideal of liberal university education, the sooner will it be accepted and attained...
...children, probably, have come to man's estate without the idea that somewhere there existed a bottomless pit. It was that deliciously terrible figure of the imagination which comes in a dream just before one rolls to the floor. But it has always remained an abstract imagining until the German mark suddenly came upon it and tumbled in. The mark had already reached an abysmal depth; now gathering more impetus, it has plunged onward twice as far as before...