Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times and from this place to other places.' That the service of the Latin School has been invaluable is obvious from the fact that 'the merely modern man never knows what he is about,' and 'a Latin education, far from alienating us from our own world teaches us to discern the amiable traits in it, and the genuine achievements; helping us, amid so many distracting problems, to preserve a certain balance and dignity of mind, together with a sane confidence in the future.' Insofar as American education strives towards those ideals, the role of the Latin School becomes important...
...important. Since it is designed to meet experiments which are still in the formulative stage, however, the basic training of the Business School retains its position of primary importance. Unless a graduate knows the problems of any institution with which he is connected, he will be unable to discern the province to be wisely administered by a wise government...
Bedside bulletins indicated that this ticklish operation went off satisfactorily last week. For a few months Princess Mary's neck will show a thin red line, thereafter a thread of scar almost impossible to discern...
...stability of traditional growth" now declared: "Would Upton Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...
...methods of self-education." Many an old Latin School boy nodded approvingly at the message which Philosopher George Santayana (1882) sent to his schoolmates: "The merely modern man never knows what he is about. A Latin education, far from alienating us from our own world, teaches us to discern the amiable traits...