Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attractive. If the classroom, the lecture, and the conference have not the vigor of the world of sport, one cannot condemn youth for choosing the latter. The educator who would build character, build the wholeness which has been an ideal ever since the Greeks first demonstrated it, must not content himself with thwarting natural tendencies. He must divert those tendencies into the most effective channels...
...that he is an old man, he is said to have frequently forbidden his sons to fight duels in defense of his honor. And it is expected that he will accept the recent triumph of Primo de Rivera with stoicism, retire, and rest content with the verdict of good or ill fame which History must pass upon...
Harvard is fortunate in having many tutors who perform their true function, and to them is due the splendid success and almost universal approval the tutorial system has met with among students. But so long as a single tutor remains content to regard himself as one in kind with the hirelings of tutoring schools, the tutorial system at Harvard will fall short of its fullest service as an instrument in education; and the majority of unfortunates who go to such a tutor will continue to regard the divisional examinations as an added hurdle to be got over...
What Fools Men. Literature in general has grown content to let the younger generation perish...
...Sell Conscious America". Returning from the new Magna Americana on the left bank of the Sethe, he is ready to place another Maine Street beside those of the maligned Middle West. There is little difference, in his opinion, between the multiple masses of the mediocre who are content with the Sunday suppliments and those who fill Paris with their now conventional caprice. The self consciousness of the one matches that of the ether. "To have to choose between literary baseball fans and the Boy Scouts of Dadaism" is, to quote Mr. Lewis, rather difficult...