Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...easy courses amounts yearly to an enormous economic waste. Happily, such quests are more frequently made by members of the lower classes than upper-class men. This is because a year or two's experience usually suffices to show an undergraduate that to take a course merely because some friend has confided to him that it's a "cinch" is not likely to prove in the end the easiest way to a degree...
...Throughout the abundant social life of William James he was so frank and so obviously friendly that it was impossible to take offence at anything he said, and this made it easier for him than for most men to strike the personal note in human intercourse. He could get at once upon a footing which made a basis of intimacy, if occasion called for this; a footing which, in any case, left each new acquaintance feeling the gates of his own mind unlocked for him. He said jokingly, one day, that when he met a new person he asked...
...Farge as a fellow pupil. His home training gave him power of expression, for in that home brilliant conversation and literary skill were traditional; while philosophy was at the same time set before him, on the one hand by his theological father and on the other by his rationalistic friend, Chauncey Wright. He early showed a strong distaste for such idealistic modes of thought as he believed obscured the concrete realities of experience...
...most important stepping stones toward a new and vastly improved relation between the Faculty and undergraduates, President Lowell is setting an example which, if followed, will change the instructor in the minds of his classes from a mere platform figure at lectures to an interested and sympathetic friend...
...with deep and sincere regret that the CRIMSON records the death of Professor Emeritus William James. His loss will be felt by Harvard, for in him she has lost probably her greatest figure in the world of thought. The undergraduates who knew him will feel the absence of a friend whose sympathetic understanding cannot be replaced...