Word: counteractivity
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...counteract this insidious propaganda that this patriotic journal would take these young men west and exhibit them as an offset to the cheap jeers and unintelligent opposition' which characterize pacifist procedure." Thus it is evident that at least two prominent American journals see in a "boast of heraldry" and its accompanying "pomp of power" the renascence of middle western morale. Yet does not this savor a bit of "unintelligent opposition" to the active desire of the people of the western world that there exist a real appreciation of the vitality of peace...
...students tend to give back on blue-books merely what they are told, "the way to counteract such a tendency is to set questions that require thought more than memory." If cramming is indulged in beyond legitimate limits,--"The questions should not be susceptible of answer by merely committing to memory facts and formulate." How great a transformation would be wrought in Harvard examination papers by the serious application of this maxim...
Interesting in this Benediktbeuren play is also the appearance of the Devil in the shepherd scene, where he endeavors through arguments and ridicule to counteract the effect of the Angels's annunciation of the Birth...
...paper I know, and give it in a form that I remember. You are to me like a keen, voluble neighbor with a gift for gathering gossip, but-with scarcely a vestige of breeding! After a dose of TIME I generally resort to the Manchester Weekly Guardian to counteract the effect. Those Guardian fellows are humorous and keen and . . . gentlemen...
True child of Massachusetts, Harvard is individualistic, skeptical, intellectually venturesome, and inclined to be lax in morale. Yale was founded to counteract its free thinking, to assert the voice of authority, and so we have the ground-gaining Eli. Princeton, largely recruited as of old from the South, avoids extremes in both morality and intellect, inclining to the picaresque...