Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behold This Dreamer looks at each of its auditors, quizzical, mocking, and asks if he is mad. Behind this look is the tale of a man who went to an insane asylum and found happiness. He was not sure that he was mad; sure he did not love his wife. His father-in-law, a successful manufacturer of brushes, thought that not loving his wife was proof that he was mad; that he hated the brush factory further evidence; had him committed. Indulging his artistic dreams in the asylum he painted a masterpiece, was proudly extricated by the brush...
Through the wards of the General Hospital at Vienna, a tall, grey doctor proceeds. His shoulders are stooped from age and work. Behind him follow 20 to 30 other doctors. They have come from all countries to attend his clinic. Many are from the U. S., taking postgraduate work, for, although the U. S. has better laboratories than any abroad, Vienna maintains its prestige for clinical research...
Napoleon gets the credit, according to Lewis, for the solution of the problem. Faced by a similar wedge directed against his center, at the Battle of Austerlitz, the Little Corporal massed reserves behind the point of attack, and swept cavalry in from the sides, to catch the advancing wedge in a vise...
Lewis turned the cavalry into tackles and ends, and massed his backs in a solid group behind the center. The backs bore the thrust of the head of the wedge, and the tackles and ends swept in to demolish the sides of the Quaker wedge. The play was stopped, Pennsylvania was stopped, and victory lighted on the Crimson banner again...
...system now in use at Harvard is, I believe, unquestionably the best of those surveyed here. It is the only one that has a logical, well worked out theory of education behind it. The others seem to have grown up, hit or miss, with the years and the theory behind them, which I have expounded above is childish in comparison. Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Williams and Dartmouth have succeeded, by some miracle of inefficiency, in interfering both too much and too little in their students' choice of studies. Too much--because for the first two years they suppress all individuality, practically...