Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that anybody wants Harvard to go big time. Harvard doesn't need the kind of reputation that goes with beating Michigan and NorthCarolina--it already has an academic reputation, which is far more valuable...
When Mrs. Lawson died a year later, Gladys went on alone. Once her converts were formed into groups, Gladys Aylward, who belongs to no denomination, saw to it that they joined the nearest Christian mission. Some became Baptists, some Methodists. Says she: "I work kind of alongside everyone. We're all after the one thing-souls for Jesus Christ. I don't care if they're sprinkled or immersed...
What should be the content of education? Hutchins' answer was simple: there is a kind of knowledge that transcends time & place; there are absolute values such as Truth and Justice, and they can be found by modern man, especially by studying what the great minds of the past had to say about the constant problems of mankind. The purpose of education, he held, is to train minds to be free, not chaotic, and free "because they can understand the order of goods and can achieve them in that order...
...afraid I was occasionally haunted on opening night by their specters. Miss Farrand and Mr. Fletcher are polished and talented actors and need no apologies made for their performances--still, it occurred to me that "The Guardsman" is one of those plays which very much needs the kind of 'grandness' that the Lunts always bring to their parts. Without that quality, "The Guardsman" is just another pleasantly amusing comedy of the Continental genre, designed to flatter one with its naughtiness rather than honestly exhilarate as comdedy should...
...Brattle Theater Company has in the past devoted its efforts to the ancient and modern classics, and perhaps one could say that "The Guardsman" is a classic of that kind, though of a far different cut of cloth. The fiber is weak but the pattern is bright, and the present wearers have given it a remarkable sheen...