Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graesler, middle-aged physician at a small German health-resort, reserved, dry, serious, melancholy, had never had the success in life that his natural abilities promised. Left alone by the sudden suicide of his sister, he was vaguely drawn into a search for belated romance and spiritual content. Three women crossed his path. He quite intended to marry the first, but they misunderstood each other fatally, and nothing came of it. The second became his mistress-and died of scarlet fever contracted from little Fanny, Frau Sommer's child, a patient of Graesler's. Graesler felt horribly about...
...intellectual integrity at least ;to have the volume on one's library shelves. The thought of when and why you will read the book never for an instant obtrudes itself. The question is purely one of the lust for possession. It is not the content of the book that you want to master. It is the book itself, the hard, concrete reality of it, whose ownership you crave. You want its title, its binding, its vibrant individuality...
...part of college students. He forgets that, taken all in all, the average American is well satisfied with his condition, that America has few problems compared with those of Europe, and that the absence of a radical party is only one more indication of general prosperity and content throughout the country as well as in the colleges. One reason that the American student shows less of the spirit of question and revolt than his European cousin is that he sees less to question and attack...
...differences between European and American students on these grounds; there is compensation for all things and the attitude of the European student loses some of its attractiveness when it is realized as the corollary of unstable and unhealthy conditions. But Dr. Gray has raised a problem. If prosperity and content lead to enfeebled intellects, if education is not great enough to force upon the mind of students the problems of wrong and un-justice that remain, America is following the primrose path to ruin...