Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several degrees and a much prized Phi Beta Kappa membership from William and Mary College. So I am deeply interested in colleges as intellectual centers and as factors in our national life. They are often under fire--the faculties are always too conservative or too radical; the courses too abstract or too forward in the eyes of critics. To me the defect is rather in the student than in the instructor. I mean by this that the tendencies in most American institutions of learning is for the student to set himself too far apart from the community; to make himself...
Even the graybeards of "Life" cannot really believe us so young and ingenuous as not to see the abstract beauty of an abstract memorial chapel. But that has nothing to do with the case. The purpose of a War Memorial, as the CRIMSON understands it, is to commemorate an ideal for which certain noble sacrifices have been made. The ideal was not merely spiritual; it was the greater one of service to humanity. A new chapel at Harvard would hardly typify that service:--it is not physically needed, and at best it would serve only those whose religious wants were...
...following article is an abstract of a speech given by Professor Henri Hauser, Exchange Professor from the University of Paris, at the Union dinner on May 21. The Crimson reprints it in its present form because of its interest to the University as a whole...
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...nights spent in his home, I have heard only one political discussion, and that one, to my untutored brain at least, as harmless as a revival meeting. There, however, one does hear good conversation. It is one of the few places I know where it is possible to discuss abstract ideas over a long period of time without the introduction of personalities. Dell is keen, fearless and just...