Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent date, and I wish to take this means to advise you not only of my heartiest approval of the project but also of that of the Society of Liberalism, which I represent here in Boston. It is time that some organ of independent, thought be brought into the focus of undergraduate attention, for without such an organ we shall be ignorant, totally Ignorant, of this ever-changing state of society in which we dwell. "Moreover, such a journal will inject new life into the University point of view, thus bringing the mind of Harvard more in tune with...
...principle applied is the very simple one, too little known, that a few moments of complete relaxation before a period of sustained effort will coordinate the faculties and bring them into focus. This little expedient of "collecting one's wits" by dispersing them altogether for a few moments is practiced by such diverse people as baseball players, musicians, public speakers, actors, and even statesmen...
...idea that "the people will believe what they want to believe." Such is the plane of morality from which the Republican and Democratic parties (particularly the former) are speaking, in the same breath, to the altruistic motives of the people! Of course, they know that if they can focus the people's minds on the league and keep them in idle debate over this "Issue" that they won't concern themselves with the genuine international problems, with the abolition of the conditions that maintain the institution of war as well as the national problems of the high cost of living...