Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inclined to place an estimate of higher worth on that capacity than does the faculty. But both will accept as psychologically sound the observation that the average student will do no or little scholastic work for which he receives no or little official credit. It is because of this complex that the tutorial system can not develop properly at present; and it is this same psychology which must be used in the future to foster its growth...
...very criticism such lists arouse is their chief merit. No mere human could possibly make them completely and finally satisfactory: the men and movements of past times are too complex to be thus neatly pigeonholed. But such lists do serve to promote thought and lead to a re-examination and clarification of modern ideas and standards...
There will always be critics whose only textbook is the scoreboard. There will always be people with a what's-the-matter-with-this-or-that complex. There will always be people with an inordinate desire to make themselves heard and usually their noise is inversely proportional to their knowledge. Harvard football has been unable to escape from this sort of interest, but the present committee will very properly ignore...
...University, but a criticism of it. Rlley, the inevitable sophisticated character who is always getting off some witty, or otherwise remark, announces, "Everybody nowadays is an ass; stupid, stubborn, uncaring, unheeding--animals--asses." Among the other "asses" are the typical athlete, the disillusioned war veteran with an inferiority complex, and several women, ladies and otherwise, varying from Beacon Street to manicure parlor types...
...anything but yawn when confronted with the wonders of science. Even hideous gases and death-dealing ultra-what rays have lost their power to amuse us. We smile at chemistry, and, save when we experiment with the fuse-box in the dark, ignore the extraordinary possibilities of electricity. Complex machinery is to us as an open primer, and we positively gape when someone mentions advanced physics...