Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no reason why Harvard's next President should be a scholar by profession; there is every reason why he should be a scholar by instinct. Any man who lacks genuine sympathy with the best kind of scholarship or who does not command respect for his own intellectual attainments is disqualified for holding any high position in a university. The suggestions for making a business man President and leaving educational policy to the Deans are on the wrong track...
...revealed his plans: ''The improved situation in the country affords me the deep satisfaction of coming home to vote, amongst my neighbors and friends. . . . I have never gone so far away nor remained so long, except during the great War and the Presidency, that the homing instinct has not carried me back every year to sink more deeply the roots of my being in the fertile soil of California's spiritual and cultural life. . . . When. sooner or later, the time arrives which permits me to do so, I propose to return to my home at Palo Alto...
...lines save it. When one sees the Maid Marion in her usual role of a minx, it is clear why her pictures appear so often on the pages of Hearst's Cosmopolitan and in the Boston American. Of course an unfeeling and unsympathetic director made Miss Davies show maternal instinct over a dog, a part difficult to reconcile with the fact that she is a Colonel in the Unites States Army, but perhaps she is really maternal after all, and the public has been misled by Democratic propaganda. She shows other virtues, in failing miserably to make plausible an implausible...
...naive Pbns ways and docile disposition mislead some people. She is smart. She works hard on her music although her natural musical instinct is phenomenally sound. It did not take her long to learn that a prima donna who travels with pets gets photographed: she brought a baby jaguar back from her triumphal visit to Buenos Aires this summer. She also has learned that divorce rumors after sudden success are bad publicity. Separated from her husband, she says: "Divorce...
...externals this year's meeting was different. The rank & file of the Legion's million members are feeling the pinch of hard times. They, as veterans, think the Government owes them something. They have collected 50% on their Bonus certificates as loans. Now they want the balance. With the instinct of buck privates they are tired of being led by well-to-do officers who seem to be taking orders from the White House. Organized originally as an explicitly non-political body, they have, through the exhortations of ambitious leaders and the promises of office-seeking politicians, become conscious...