Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidence so far produced therefore leads to the conclusion that the action of the police Friday night was both unwarranted and unnecessarily brutal. Until the hearing on Friday, when full evidence from the police as well as the students is produced no further comment is possible...
...article from the Princetonian and the accompanying editorial comment dealing with the four recent undergraduate suicides which you publish in today's Crimson, lack of synthesis in the intellectual development afforded students in our present educational system is given as the possible reason. The assumption that men are motivated chiefly by intellect, rather than by an inseparable mixture of thought and feeling, is essentially false...
...Princetonian, on the other hand, part of whose comment is reprinted in another column, places the blame upon "under-education." This criticism strikes much nearer to the heart of the matter. Rendering unity out of chaos is a salutary process for the individual, and a necessary operation for the educational institution. It is hardly to be denied that the synthesis of life of which the Princetonian speaks is too often submerged under the mass of analytic facts and information with which education is today encumbered. It is a situation which has been recognized increasingly in recent years. The "civilizational" education...
After reading your article in the current issue of TIME headed "Atavism" I cannot resist the temptation to comment...
...Milner remarked that men have the ability to take a book and read three or four hours on a stretch, their only movement being to turn the pages. "No woman can do it," was her comment. "It is a purely masculine trait. Another thing, men like to be let alone when they are reading. Not that a 'Kipling' reader could be easily disturbed When I see a man reading 'Kipling' I know from experience that his mind is far from the Farnsworth Room...