Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current number of the "Musical Review," the article by Professor Spalding, entitled "The Need for a Broader Conception of Culture," is easily the most significant, despite the high quality and able critical attitude displayed in the other contributions. Professor Spalding demonstrates with cogent reasoning the appalling limitations existent in the estimation, as to what constitutes cultivation, appeals justly for a more concrete realization of the intellectual and emotional scope afforded by music of the highest type, and establishes the unassailable right of the arts to occupy a position as a means of culture fully equal to that afforded by literature...
With this in mind, many men in the University should give their moral and mental support to debating. If representative men, capable of standing up and talking cogent thoughts, will go out for the team, debating will be put on the basis it deserves...
...situation is very much as if physical culture instructors should devote all their attention to feeding their pupils on the best possible nourishment, and make no attempt to give the pupils exercise." The limitations of space forbid the reviewer to enter upon an extended discussion of this incisive and cogent criticism of the Harvard lecture system. It is unquestionably destined to receive the wide and careful attention which it merits...