Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most notable feature of the character of the undergraduate is his instinct to conform, to think and act as his fellows think and act. If probation were looked upon as a disgrace, and if a little healthy missionary work were done by classmates--in other words, if undergraduates realized some responsibility for their fellows--the sinking probationer would more often make an effective effort to reform his ways. It may sound extreme to say so, but the fact is that probation in Harvard College is no more of a punishment to a student than an indictment...
...title of "Chaucer and His Poetry." It is, I think, hardly too much to say that this is one of the most interesting books on Chaucer that has ever appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment of Chaucer's art and its purpose is to impart to the reader something of the author's conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern of English poets and one of the most popular.' The style is that of a lecturer, lively at times almost colloquial...
...most obvious element of attractiveness in the ministry is its stability as a continuing function of society. It rests back upon fundamental and essentially unchanging elements of human experience; it has the immense initial advantage of springing from, and appealing to, one of the central instincts of the human race. For the minister is par excellence the religious leader of the community and religion is one of the most serious, the most permanent and inclusive interests of human beings. The sex hunger, the desire for food and clothing the passion to understand ourselves and the universe in which we live...
Miss George, explaining her offer yesterday, said, "Although I make the offer generally, I expect the keenest response from the larger universities where dramatic departments are already established. Professor G. P. Baker at Harvard takes students with dramatic instinct and develops that talent in his English 47. Yale and Columbia have similar courses, I believe, and Syracuse University has begun one within the past few months. Steps have been taken in the same direction at the University of Minnesota and other institutions. I have been greatly interested in these attempts to encourage intelligent consideration of playwriting among students. Harvard seems...
Saturday's defeat has accomplished one thing which years of victory could scarcely attain. There is an instinct for men to stand together in adversity which is lacking in success, and every Harvard man who has previously felt only a complacent interest in the team is now backing it heart and soul. It is defeat which shows the true calibre of men, and the grit and fighting qualities showed by Captain Mahan and his team in Saturday's game have brought them out of the contest more respected, if such a thing is possible, than they were before the game...