Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutors, like baseball players, don't ordinarily like to leave their home club, then some other solution must be found. This might amount to filling vacancies which may occur from now on with tutors in fields not well-represented in the various Houses. It was not President Lowell's idea that the Houses should become strongholds of academic totalitarianism, nor should this be the policy today...
...moments of gloom and happiness of any group of people proceed from the same fundamental roots as the joys and sorrows of man as a universal form. Coffin's idea is that the distinctive characteristics of a single human being, such as a Maine fisherman, are the qualities which lend a positive tone to poetic translations of human nature. One cannot write convincingly of a universal type of human being, for even if it existed, it would lack the compelling reality which inspires poetry. The force and enthusiasm behind a poem is one factor which determines its ability to convey...
Things I never knew till now are that I am saturnine and about to make another mi-lion. Neither is true but the million bucks idea thrills...
...whole thing is ridiculous and I sometimes get quite worked up about it. The whole idea seems to give one the impression that life is futile. What's the good of looking forward if always there hangs a cloud of envy, spite, malice, etc., etc. over countries which are in themselves beautiful and where only man is vile...
...injustice was perhaps done in at least one of the cases which the eleven protesting members cited. This, however, does not alter the fact that a protest requesting "strict observance of the merit system; in other words, on the basis of outside activities" does not contribute one constructive idea towards the solution of the problem. It is merely the expression of an admission standard already so often expressed it has become hackneyed...