Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...should we so completely lose ourselves in admiration of the Fathers, so glorify their wisdom and courage, by confessing that we are weak and foolish, and by demonstrating our timidity? If the Fathers had lacked the moral courage to consider even the question of the practicability and desirability of framing the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation would have been accepted as a frail bond of union. A tithe of the courage and independence required of them ought to suffice for us in the duty of considering whether there should be any amendment...
...clever bits of dialogue. The Chghan, with his painted tin poultry, sneezing twice to call his slave, is a successful comic centre for the tale. The story would be improved by a little more reasonableness of action--not reason; far be that from Boola Ban! Even foolishness, however, has its foolish laws, and there is a kind of absurd orderliness in nonsense. In the story "Getting Agnes," by J. L. Warren '08, there is not enough drawing of character to make one willing to forgive the commonplaceness of the theme. Perhaps it is the attitude of the pedagogue that prejudices...
...death-bed unless physicians are summoned. There is safety in numbers thinks the old man, and four doctors answer his call--pure figures of burlesque, and a little bitter burlesque, for Moliere had small faith in the pretentious practitioners of his time. They are portentously solemn, self-important, foolish and comic. It is the fifth physician who replaces them (no other than the disguised Clitandre) who works an expeditious cure. This short farce is all prose, all travesty, and all a thing to be acted in the liveliest and broadest fashion...
...first place we must get over the impression that any of this society's actions are criminal--the motive of crime is lacking. Foolish and childish they may be and inspired by the same love for excitement, that made us as boys "book" apples from the neighbor's barn or ring his door-bell at the imminent risk of being spanked, but they cannot be called criminal...
...traditions of an organization which had a place in times gone by still influence men of the present day to do things of which they do not perhaps approve. The survival of the "Med. Fac." to the present day is merely an evidence of how tradition lives at Harvard, foolish as that tradition we had better leave far behind us. ANOTHER UNDERGRADUATE