Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possessed the same physical advantages. Unfortunately neither of these conditions was fulfilled, with the result that the freshmen have rushed like sheep other toward the Houses which first got under way or toward those most attractive physically. Yet the majority of these Freshmen are only acting with the herd instinct; they have no real reason for preferring a particular House other than the fact that everybody else seems to be going there. The outcome of this stampeding has been deplorable; the desired cross sections are in certain cases either non-existent or overbalanced at one end, the demarcations...
Most illiterate dagoes* have the killer instinct, especially when their animal comfort is disturbed. In the countrysides they are notorious pothunters. Hunting U. S. Presidents or other public officials is far easier for deranged dagoes than pothunting afield. All Joe Zangara had to do was go to Miami's Bay Front Park and take a front seat, wait like an ardent if stupid-looking patriot until the President-elect should come within range...
This has been done by numerous writers at great length. Brief bibliography: Recent Social Trends (published Tan. 2. 1933), Vol. 1. Chapter 6, by Ralph G. liurlin and Meredith B. Givins. Thorstein Yeblen: Theory of Business Enterprise, 1904; The Instinct of Workmanship, 1918: 7 he Place of Science in Modern Civilization, 1910; The Engineers & the Price System, 1921. Frederick Soddy: Wealth, Virtual Wealth & Debt, 1926. Fred Henderson: Economic Consequences of Power Production, 1931. Alvin Harvey Hansen: Economic Stabilisation in an Unbalanced World, 1932. Paul H. Douglas & Aaron Director: Problem of Unemployment, 1931. Leon P. Alford: In Recent Economic Chanties...
...citizen who buys a painting or a piece of sculpture, probably 500 buy prints: etchings, engravings, mezzotints, woodcuts. Prints are comparatively inexpensive. Even in a city apartment a portfolio of 100 will fit in a bureau drawer. Because of their fluctuating value they appeal to the trading instinct latent in all collectors. But the appreciation of the graphic arts has this difference from the appreciation of painting: a man may have a sound knowledge of Renaissance painting without knowing the difference between tempera and gesso. But a print collector cannot appreciate what he has in his portfolio unless he knows...
...like Heywood Broun '10, John Dos Passes '16, Walter Lippmann '10, and Henry Dana '03, are evidence of the liberalism which Harvard fosters, or at least does not quench. When a man comes to Harvard with the instinct of radicalism already developed, he is almost certain to maintain it; when the other type comes, the man with an aristocratic. New England training and a preconceived conservatism, he is almost sure to come in contact with ideas and theories that will give him at least a tolerance of liberalism. He often becomes a liberal himself, and sometimes turns into...