Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While these remedies may sound radical, they are not beyond the bounds of reason. Present conditions cannot be allowed to continue--and to grow worse. If there are men in the College who are of the type that have to be watched continually, the rest of us are, or should be, more than willing to undergo inconvenience and a slight personal indignity in order to weed them out . . . Or, as a last resort, the Reading Room could he closed entirely. The Stacks are still there; and it is better to have no Reading Room at all than to depend upon...
...Atlantic by R.M. Gay, is an eloquent defence of "the hospitable mind" of "well-appointed heads that carry about a quantity of odds and ends, picked up without thought or conscious intention during the journey of life". It seeks a favorable hearing for the man who lets his mind grow, rather than be cultivated, and an escape from the educational expert "who can tell you how to put a mind together as one would a salad". It is one of those rare protests against the brutal carrying out of specialization which, on the whole, is characteristic of our educational system...
...minds an attitude which makes persons and personalities, not material things, of primary importance. I don't care how this change is worked out. The one important thing is that if you can get an idea into people's heads, that idea, provided it is true, will work and grow...
...that there will not be a large number of people who will deduce that the object is to spoil the game. Rather, the platform was drawn up with the feeling that the present over-systematizing, over-training, and over-emphasis, of football must be counteracted, or these characteristics will grow and make conditions so bad that the game would be killed. Some of the points on this platform are, as the result of the discussion that has been going on everywhere for the past few months, fairly acceptable. Others may seem radical in the extreme, and yet to make changes...
...subjects, the Jacquerie would not have had arms. And I suppose the first Paleolithic genius who slung a rook with a twisted grass rope had no idea that the gentleman in the adjoining cave would get wise to the trick. No; we should not delude ourselves. We must grow accustomed to the military plagiarism of the "insurgents"; they have no sense of honor--never having attended Harvard--and we must prepare ourselves to accept with calm dignity the news of bombs dropped from the sky on railroad roundhouses, coal operators' homes, and--gracious--perhaps the White House...