Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason that the humor of Stephen Leacock persists because it is based on a deep understanding of the human mind and a sympathy for human frailty. If only more of our present day writers would turn their attention to the picturing of individual characters and spend some time in abstract analysis of character, we should have more real literature...
...abstract the transfer of Haughton from Harvard to Columbia will prove deeply interesting as a test of the absolute value of coaching intelligence to a football team's success. At Harvard Haughton was supplied with every modern convenience in the way of equipment, some of the greatest material in football history, and the curious Harvard spirit which presupposes supremacy. At Columbia his general coffers will be cramped in comparison, his material quite without Groton and Exeter training, and his constituency lacking in what may be termed the superiority complex. If Mr. Haughton constructs a first-class team on Morningside...
...personification of abstract ideas in Greek tragedy...
...influential position, its words must be heeded. Unfortunately, to our way of thinking, the conception of such a memorial seems to indicate a confusion of relative values. In the fear of putting utilitarian motives uppermost, the committee goes too far to the other extreme, and forgets that however fine abstract memories may be, and however eager the University is to express its gratitude in the most ideal terms, still there is a higher ideal--the humanitarian. To perpetuate the Past is a purpose with which college men will sympathize; but the more immediate concern must rightly be the Future. There...
...Harkness at Yale, the Walker Memorial at Technology, and our own library, are all examples of highly utilitarian buildings which never lost sight of the memorial purpose for which they were erected. As long as the CRIMSON believes that undergraduates, at least, favor the practical ideal rather than the abstract, it will earnestly continue to support the proposal for a memorial dormitory. Meanwhile, expressions of opinion from others will not be unprofitable...