Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tendency for the faculty to pursue a line never quite, tangent to undergraduate interest. Hence, the evident appreciation of Professor Copeland's attempt to touch the undergraduate sphere, in the words of Dean Briggs, "to store the memory, to expand the mind, to soften the prejudices, to sharpen the insight, and to strengthen the characters of human beings...
...reincarnation in the world of a Jesus, a Plato, a Shakespere and a Dante, a world which Bertrand Russell describes as just beyond the cavern of despair where Self must die, out "where the Gate of Renunciation leads again to the daylight of wisdom by whose radiance a new insight, a new joy; a new tenderness, shine forth to gladden the pilgrim's heart." Then, and then alone, when man has learned to control his inner life, can he stand forth, free of his fear, a fortified Frankenstein...
...communication quoted elsewhere in these columns, though showing no appreciable insight into the subject with which it deals, is sufficiently representative of a certain class of opinion to deserve publication. The writer refers to a statement in the CRIMSON platform which appeared October 5, and in referring to it, adds a deduction of his own not included therein. The CRIMSON did not state that the world was advancing because the Church was losing its influence. What the CRIMSON did say, in its effort to seize the underlying problem which faces higher education today was as follows...
...possesses a keen insight into the workings of a boy's mind, and this quality will enable him to spur football players as ably as track men. He has, too the advantage of long experience in training men. Twice he has been one of the coaches for the American Olympic team, following his trip in 1912 as a member of the team. I am exceedingly glad of his appointment for he is bound to be a great asset to football...
...everyone knows, is a gentleman of the highest abilities. Of him wrote Albert Edward Wiggam in his famed book, The New Decalogue of Science: "Glenn Frank's career, in my judgment, will be one of the world events of the coming generation. His genius, scholarship, poise and insight represent the new type of statesman, of whom I have endeavored to write...