Word: aroostook
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those whose interest centers in philological, historical, and mathematical problems. A genuinely broad mind, however, will not pronounce too hastily upon the comparative value of different kinds of mental effort, or effort devoted to the solution of different kinds of problems. If one finds, for example, that the Aroostook farmers talk about potato growing, and the western farmers about cattle feeding as incessantly as Harvard law students talk about law cases, one may have definite opinions as to which class of problems is least important, but one will be slow to decide which kind of talk is least educational. Similarly...