Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...analysis of the resources for moral instruction is then the central question of modern education. There is in human nature a deep stratum, underlying the results of training. A rich manifold of instinct, containing the material from which good or bad conduct may evolve. This manifold of instinct is plastic and may be moulded, so that from nature arises second nature. The instinct of pugnacity may be transformed into a desire to fight for good...
...modern speech. In this group are Croiset, Canson, Le Franc, Baldensperger, and Legouis. "There is something inexplicable in the gift of speech," he said, "something as rare as the gift of poetry. And the art of teaching, like that of speaking, is more or less a mystery which requires deep analysis,--a sort of trade which we are all endeavoring to follow...
...Angell will speak upon "The Foundations of International Polity." His well-known book, "The Great Illusion," is a study of the relation of military power to national welfare, and his lecture will touch upon some of the advanced doctrines of modern international theory which have given this work its deep influence upon European thought. His experience in America, England and France led him to write several books, the first, "Patriotism Under Three Flags," was followed by "Arms and Industry," "The Citizen and Society," and other works in the field of international politics and relations. The lecture is given under...
Everyone admits that the system of Concentration and Distribution has its faults. Some, especially members of the class of 1914 who entered when it was a deep mystery to all but a chosen few rail against it as so much ineffectual red tape...
...typical Harvard man and that his generalities on Harvard's man and that his generalities on Harvard's failures are imaginary word pictures. Not that Harvard is not ready to be criticized for her good; quite to the contrary. We only ask that criticism come from real, deep thought and from knowledge of the majority and not from individual notions. We are sorry that Mr. Stearns had to listen to "bar-room or pool-room gossip, given additional vigor by quotations from the classics." We wish now that someone who knows what undergraduate conversation and habits generally are would step...