Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...supposedly fictitious Harvard indifference: A senior once languidly remarked, as he entered Appleton Chapel to hear the Baccalaureate Sermon, "Well this is the first and last time I'll go in here;" and a Junior once admitted, when asked where the College Chapel was, that he did not know. Pathetic, yes, and humorous, but a kind of pathos and humor that can make hypocrites of a good many of us. For several years after compulsory Chapel was abolished, such episodes might have been expected, for a reaction is normal after any ailment. Undoubtedly the next Count at Harvard will convulse...
...blame Freshmen for not attending Chapel, for a secret feeling is instilled into them that it is "not the thing to do." We do blame the upperclassmen who allow this feeling to take root. Whether or not they know it, they are continually setting the standards towards which new classes will strive, and what they taboo new students will taboo. Originality is not so prevalent as some may think and is frequently snubbed when met. And so it rests with the serious-minded upperclassmen, particularly the men who have made good in the College world, to most...
...that neither of these professions prepares men for the general problems of the department of public sanitation. The School for Health Officers will fill the gap by sending out men trained sufficiently in medicine to see the dangers in crowded and unhealthy sections and in engineering and law to know how to meet them without hesitation...
...Already the portents are very visible. While in London, I attended a number of those speech-making dinner clubs--you know what sort of thing they are. Boston itself is somewhat given that way--great clearing-houses for useless ideas. Well, believe me or not, as you choose, on those occasions I heard a most prodigious amount of well-nigh inconceivable 'rot'--no other word describes it,--there emitted. Progressiveism--gone mad, we in the United States would consider it; they call it Radicalism. To my thought it was twaddle. And it wasn't the talking of it bothered...
...instant assume that I object to a serious-minded Radicalism. That type of thought may for all I know be specially now needed to cope with the problems today presenting themselves. In England these problems are acute. I venture to say that the unrest is already far deeper-seated in the English proletariat than it is here; and surely America has need of some well-balanced, if Radical, thinking to meet existing conditions. Toward the solution of the problems of today the universities, both of America and of England, will do well to bend their energies. That, however...