Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having read of the Harvard he knows and of the Harvard of an earlier time, and of John Harvard whose "School Abides, his testament", he is ready for the sterner stuff contained in Aswell's Bowdorn Prize essay, "This Modern Chaos Called Education." It is a cogent plea that Education, Philosophy, and Life be linked in an indissoluble bond. Teachers must make of their subjects a framework for their philosophy. A philosophy of life must be the aim of Education, and whether it result in a religious or a humanistic philosophy is of little concern to the essayist, though...
...brief, to rule out this course because of its martial connotation or because it could become too cheap a part of modern education is unfair. The cogent argument against it is that which suggests this as another movement inward professionalizing the college. Yet it need not be quite that if it be a real part of the movement toward making military training less the professional study of the few and more an accessory knowledge of the many. Military life will continue to assume a professional status in the eyes of those who wish so to make it. But the tendency...
...them far better than from any group of casual undergraduates can come the proper criticism of the chapel. Until it is possible thus to reveal a definitely constructive criticism of the idea of the chapel and the form in which that idea is now expressed the CRIMSON sees no cogent reason for voicing the obvious...
...most cogent comment that the current Independent can make on the capture of Abd-el-Krim and the impending collapse of the resistance of the Riffians to the French forces in Morocco is that Spain must have learned that great resources and abundant population are necessary to successful schemes for colonial empire. That is all true enough; the Riffian episode has been a trenchant comment on Spanish weakness; but if it had been only that it would not have been as much in the head-lines...
There are Browns at Harvard. But there are also Jones and Cabots and Smiths. So no particularly cogent reason exists for this overemphasis on Brown And, to be precise. Brown really does not represent any college type--even the tinniest--half as much as he does a Gandle or a Gissing, created by the quixotic gesture of a far from accurate...