Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore credible that Christian women, such as the Armenian mother is known to be, would bargain their most precious jewels (babies), to dogs (Turks) whom they would not hesitate to destroy; for gain ? Hardly...
...Harvard team and the Green ran wild to triumph 32 to 9. No such walkaway should take place today? Dartmouth may score early and often; but Harvard has a strong offense for the first time in four years, and the Green will not be the only team to gain ground. With Miller fit again, Harvard should have a strong rushing attack; with French, Sayles, and Putnam completing the backfield, and the strongarmed Guarnaccia in reserve, the Crimson forward passes are to be feared by even the strongest opponent. And as Glenn Warner has often said, the best defense...
What the college needs, he believes, is a general course in philosophy for the founding of a "philosophy of life" in the particular student, based upon the great philosophies of all time. Here he apparently believes that a college student should gain at college a pattern for life which will improve later years. To reduce this to its simplest form one must state: that Mr. Aswell wants a college or university to give a student from its lecture platforms a working basis for his life work. He distinguishes a vocational school from a university by just that fact: a vocational...
...philosophy is one approach to what Plato would call the Universal. There are those for whom it is the only approach. But others must gain their open sesame to, or glimpse of the Universal by means of their own ability which may not be philosophical at all. Furthermore, a Vermont herdsman may have reached such a philosophy without ever hearing the best lectures of the most synthetic mind. College or university must exist for more than this. Mr. Aswell sees things too clearly. His college would be too efficient, too limited in perspective...
...large, unless one derides science, he gets but a short way in discussing either or bath, especially when he relates the difficulties of modern education so closely to them. Mr. Aswell forgets that, though he be at an impressionable stage while at college, the student cannot hope to gain a formula for future existence and a road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious gleam of reality...