Word: important
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DECLINE OF THE WEST-Oswald Spengler - Translated by Charles Francis Atkinson-Knopf ($6). The U. S. publication of what is commonly regarded as the outstanding historico-philosophical treatise of 20th Century Germany is an item of import to be noted if not investigated by the average man. The book itself, of a profoundly speculative nature, will have to pass through numerous academic abridgments and crystallizations before it can touch the consciousness of the mass of Western mankind, of whose ideational processes it tells. In its own words, "The attempt is made for the first time to determine history in advance...
...period which is agony for the student and joy to the instructor, according to the average undergraduate's viewpoint. Final examinations are upon us; a day and a night spent in hurried review of a course, remembering dates and names, movements, policies, statesmanship; hurried jottings of calculations, of supposedly important facts (if we know or have an idea of what the instructor likes): charred table-edges from forgotten cigarettes, a blue haze of tobacco smoke, heeled butts crowding the corners. Visions of the instructor who faithfully peruses his text in order that he may find catch questions (we imagine...
...snow are rather too elusive to be land, the top of the world may not be exempt from a republican tariff. Although these questions agitate men who have probably never seen an iceberg, the polar bears may no doubt be permitted a yawn. That a sliding scale of import duties can have a vital effect on denizens of the slippery north seems unlikely. Even the Eskimos do not appear to be lobbying in congressional haunts...
...which he was willing that his administration should be judged. A similar feather in his hat, of smaller significance, perhaps, and a plume of different hue, is the Gadfly which appears this morning. For not only is it a careful and diligent attempt to cope with problems of imminent import to the University, but it also presents an attitude quite opposite to that of the Student Council Committee, and the attitude more to be expected from explosive youth...
...hold the Philippines except as a grandiose assumption of ? "the white man's burden." Now, wise business interests see in the Philippines great prospect of national wealth. Rubber perhaps will grow there. Not only so, but 50 or 100 years hence the U. S. may need to import food, and food can be abundantly produced in the Philippines. Vast hills of minerals are also reputed to be lying there untouched. In short, the Philippine question is no longer purely academic...