Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individual in the course, he represents the frailties of the human flesh, to be plied with the wine of excuse and entreaty until his will is bent to the individual's purpose. The storm of hard-luck stories and heart-appeals that daily besiege a monitor's ear would do credit to a Hollywood composition course. And it is the sternest of the monitorial clan that cannot be bent now and then before the storm...
...this point, a word in your ear, notwithstanding howls from the Jester and other serious-minded folk. "No individual who does anything worth doing, and does it with all his might, need be lost in the crowd at Harvard; and, taken for all in all, Harvard is the best place I know for the individual youth." And the word comes from the undergraduates' best friend, Dean Briggs. Accomplish something, then, remembering that what you get will be measured in terms of what you give...
...James Barrie is one man of the older generation who can count on a sympathetic ear from youth. He knows youth, not as the outsider looking in, but as the warm friend who can put himself in the place of others, feal their emotions, and see the queer twists of view that make up their individual outlook on life. His recent address to the students of St. Andrews Universtiy is loaded with his particular brand of whimay; it is loaded also with the most cheerful advice, and words of encouragement that students will be tempted to heed. Such a remark...
Just as everyone does not have an ear for music or innate ability as an artist, so not everyone is psychic, he said in explaining why all people could not be mediums. Furthermore, the conditions must he suitable before a spirit may be recalled and the spirit itself must want to come of its own accord...
...hard headed practical idealist, the fanatic possessed with such an unpopular loathing for sin, "listens with the whole of his attention strung up to its highest pitch, his eyes wide open staring at you, his mouth pursed up into a little O of suction, his fingers pressing to his ear the receiver of a machine which overcomes his deafness, his whole body leaning half across the table in his eagerness to hear every world you say." And so on through the twelve sketches which fill the book...