Word: cynically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tablet to be dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt records that here "Harvard's greatest alumnus" spent "four formative and fruitful years," a verdict in which all but a few will concur. But the voice of the cynic and the iconoclast will make itself heard, inquiring whether after all Roosevelt's connection with the University, or ours for that matter, has really been formative...
Thus did the crabbed cynic ridicule those who made marble mausoleums for a heap of ashes. But those of us who have never achieved living in a wine cask, insist upon at least six feet of quiet sod and an undisturbed headstone. For, as Dr. Rand has observed, the living might find some more appropriate way of honoring the dead than by carting the bones around...
...suggests the question of "who is there today that is really great?" In literature there are many prominent figures, among whom Kipling, with his genius for short stories and for verse and an occasional gift of true poetry, is the chief. In statesmanship--who is there? The cynic is apt to quote the great Disraeli, saying that "the world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians". In the art of war there is no single outstanding figure, unless the title of Marshall Foch be changed from that of a great patriot to that of a great inctician...
...cynic once said that an Independent is a Republican who always votes the Democratic ticket." And we may assume that this statement, if true, is sufficient motivation for the Republican hope that the Independents will find it too cold a day to go to the polls in the coming Congressional elections. It requires no keen observer to see that the Republican situation is uncertain; many seats in both the House and Senate are being contested vigorously...
...address Professor Hocking said that the Liberal is likely to be a critic; but he can never be a cynic. He believes that the final force in the world is the force of ideas. The Student Liberal Club already has found a place in University life. It has been successful in part because it meets needs peculiar to this University. Other discussion groups have struggled for some years at Harvard and finally failed, but the Student Liberal Club strikes a balance between discussion among ourselves and discussion by outside speakers...