Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proctors seem to have joined the new fanatics, telling us to abstain from thought and wine. Those who make a living out of the new ethics have to say such things; but the officers of a richly endowed university do not need to earn their salaries by intoning the foolish credos of the newly established State religion of the United States. They should be of the school of Socrates, who "heartily enjoyed social pleasure and deemed it unworthy of a man capable of self-control to abstain from innocent gratification through fear of falling into excess...
...first place, Evolution is not foolish. Anyone who tries to laugh aside as a joke this great monument of intellectual advancement becomes himself ridiculous. It is food for the loftiest thought. Here, as everywhere else, the revelations of science have proved, beyond comparison, more uplifting and inspiring than any product of the human imagination, such as the myth about Adam...
...foolish to conceive of a world court administering international law in the way that national courts carry out national law, for the law of nations is by no means a fixed and unchanging body of rules. It finds its sanction for the most part only in public opinion, and therefore its very nature requires a close connection with the sphere of politics. Senator Borah's sheerly legalistic ideal world court is a myth and an impossibility...
...which every cause, no matter how worthwhile, must constantly justify itself before the public or fall measurably in its success. Physicians may have dignified their business of selling health by calling it a profession, but if they are content to let more vociferous healers monopolize public attention, then foolish dignity must not excuse unfulfilled duty...
...foolish to suggest that a remedy can be affected by increasing the faculty or making a greater number of successful elementary courses for Freshman and Sophomores. It is too difficult a problem to be solved by hasty student opinion. But it is important that those who are drifting hopelessly and wearily through their first two years of concentration, should realize why that is. They must have the patience to continue in their chosen fields of interest and win through to the classrooms of Harvard's great teachers...