Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jewish half gave Moses dispassionate insight into Hebrew nature-thus he chose not to enter Canaan knowing that it was the promised land only as long as it remained a promise. (The Bible claims, on the contrary, that Jehovah forbade him enter because he had sinned with a foreign light of love.) Untermeyer notes radical differences between Joshua's matter-of-fact record, and Nath's beautified narrative: Joshua itemizes the miraculous God-sent path through the Red Sea as matter of calculated tides and wind...
...Class discussion seems rather futile to me. When a man is alone with his tutor he expresses himself without restraint and the tutor gets a clear insight into each of his scholars. Your exams can be passed by cramming., A mere surface knowledge will not suffice to convince our tutors of our industry. We do not have to attend lecturers or take quizzes. Oxford leaves it up to the person to use his own initiative in educating himself. Harvard does not especially nurture the individual...
Last week, Predicter Pierce was asked to predict further. Pleased, Predicter Pierce said he would "invoke Parnassus and jostle Jove on high Olympus for insight into the future." Then came his prophecies...
...annual Class Day. To the casual observer it might appear merely another day of meaningless jubilation and glamorous festivity, superficial and transitory. To the initiated, to those who can penetrate beneath the gay laughter, the forced smiles, the whirl and blaze of confetti and streamers, is revealed a deep insight into a romantic trend in the history of Harvard...
...Senior Album, large, well edited, informative, has appeared with its interesting records and its invaluable picture gallery. With it come statistics, none of prime importance, all offering more or less of an insight into the minds of incipient alumni. That inclusive giant "Business" is hailed as the favored occupation, while the professions follow below in varying degrees of popularity. Sports, such as Painting, Radio Engineering, and Oil Refining occur and there is, of course, a large number of men who did not signify their future work...