Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit of the founders and to understand more completely the significance of their bold plan. And with the increase in our knowledge comes a more than proportional increase in our admiration. As you have heard, the Puritans' ambition was none other than to transplant to an untamed forest the ancient university tradition. They would be satisfied with nothing short of duplicating here in New England at least one college of Cambridge University. Carried forward by the 'strong tide of Puritanism, the enterprise was at first blessed with almost miraculous success. The goal might well seem to be in sight when...
...nineteenth century reform of Oxford we may well ask: If the intellectual division of labour which Newman advocated' and which still finds proponents in our own time is to be desired, why were the English universities in so unsatisfactory a condition? The accidents of time had destroyed the ancient function of advancing knowledge and yet the institutions did not flourish...
...death it was finished by Merle Thorpe, editor of The Nation's Bttsiness. Its opening sentence: "It is an interesting coincidence that at the very time when Edward Gibbon was approaching the completion of his monumental work-the 'mighty epitaph' of the greatest republic of ancient times-a small group of men assembled in Philadelphia were creating a new republic in the western world which, in point of potential power. . . ." The remainder of the volume's 205 pages is devoted to a learned account of how the Constitution has been progressively undermined, a thesis dear...
Professor Edward Kasner of Columbia University announced that he had measured and bisected the "horn angle" - the angle between two curves tangent to each other. The ancient Greeks decided that the horn angle was a zero, could therefore be neither measured nor bisected; Isaac Newton and his successors, having no luck with the problem, were constrained to agree. Dr. Kasner solved the problem with four unreal numbers. When the angle is bisected in his geometrical system, the sum of the halves is greater than the whole. And if one of the curves is considered to be a straight line, each...
Concludes Author Tunis bitterly: "We are a bunch of contented college cows. . . . That lamp of learning, tended by the ancient Greeks, blown white and high in the mediaeval universities and handed down to us in a direct line through Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge, has at last produced a group of men whose chief ambitions . . . [are] to vote the Republican ticket, to keep out of the bread line, and to break 100 at golf. . . . Does one need to go to college to have such aspirations...