Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To plan a life means to track the consequences of one's ordinary desires, economic, sexual, social; the desires for power and responsibility, for case and pleasure, for self-expression, for security, for adventure, for popularity. Economics follows up in detail the consequences of men's desire for wealth. Philosophy...
In a measure the report can be explained by a desire on the part of the graduates to build up Harvard's athletic tradition. But fortunately it goes farther than this. Analysis reveals the fact that the committee has been very careful to consider the needs of the graduate school...
And there is need and room in public office for the college man with his clear and logical mental processes. Is not the desire to hold public office as honorable as the aspiration for the ministry or medicine or law or the other professions? Yet we often find a timidity...
The final reason for this singular distribution of intellectual opportunities lies in the professors themselves. It is their natural desire to teach the advanced, the enthusiastic, and the mentally alert. Unfortunately the average student does not usually acquire so serious an interest until after his Sophomore year.
The task of outlining a plan is one which requires more of selective than of imaginative skill. Oxford, with the tutor method the backbone, and lectures given purely for the benefit of those who desire to attend; Princeton, where the so-called preceptorial system has been set into the courses...