Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learning--for a few years at least--what standards have and should still exist by which he is to measure the worth of his own work. He is getting ideas. And most of this profusion of mediocrity in contemporary art is due primarily to a lack of sane and sufficient standards, of sane and sufficient thinking. As an undergraduate he is free to learn these standards, to absorb that sanity. So his college cramp may not--in the end--be more than the restraint necessary for ht realization of a creative power, sufficient to overcome the mediocrity or contemporary...
...outlook for any speedy conversion of these students to political democracy in the extreme form propagated by the international Left is small. Rather, it does not exist. Future development is almost certain to strengthen the present trend, and this especally because of the fact that the recently organized "Hochschulring deutscher Art" has became a powerful factor among both graduates and undergraduates. This organization, which embraces all students of German tongue, not merely in Germany, but also in Bohemia, Austria, Danzig, etc., is growing rapidly. Its aim is 'to develop loyalty, uprightness, nobility of character, and the ability to defend ourselves...
Strange freak of nature, that those great holocaustic agencies that affect man most, should be so little understood by him while they exist. Mankind must forever await patiently the future which shall interpret the past in retrospect. The question, "Who began the war?" must remain for the present as impenetrable a mystery as its correlative...
...evident that at least two prominent American journals see in a "boast of heraldry" and its accompanying "pomp of power" the renascence of middle western morale. Yet does not this savor a bit of "unintelligent opposition" to the active desire of the people of the western world that there exist a real appreciation of the vitality of peace...
After a century and a half of experiment the accomplishment seems to fall far short of the undertaking. So large a class of half-educated men and women now exist in American society that even the most sanguine believer in the capabilities of the common man must see that to grow in wisdom mere entrance at a college is not enough. In guaranteeing equality of educational opportunity, American universities have come very near accepting as a corollary that dangerous equality of educational condition which, under the "open door" policy, sets its standards only slightly above the plane of mediocrity...