Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...academic psychology but to culture in general. Willy nilly it has become the language of a large part of the contemporary world. It has had its affect in many quarters; the novel, the drama, biography, history, sociology, criminology, anthropology and primary education have all been touched by it for better or for worse. At the present day we are witnessing a momentously critical change in the attitude of mankind. Three hundred years ago Lord Bacon formally inaugurated the scientific era, and man turned his face from God to the natural world. Today the emphasis upon the study of nature...
...everything else. Do you see? In the great wave of emotion, which overflows all our psychological dikes into the cistern that we call "poetry", I was slowly but surely drowning myself. "Your surrender is always too complete," he said. "You give too much, always." (No, I like this way better...
This is the last of a series of teas held for the purpose of allowing students in the University to become better acquainted with their instructors...
...expense is little more than that which is incurred on a theatre party at a good musical comedy followed by a little dancing at one of the better night-clubs. As for the homogeneity--the Business School has dances under the auspices of the Gaydon Club which are generally very well attended and otherwise successful. Yet, obviously, these men have no more--probably less, in fact--to hold them together than do the members of the Junior Class...
...year dance has tended to prove itself a white elephant, owing to the waning social homogeneity of a class, especially after its initial year. In short, the quicker it is recognized that the class promenade, a by-product of rampant collegiatism, is destined not to flourish at Harvard the better...