Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...understanding, the development of the mind as a whole is its object, a mind sympathetic and without prejudice, which from its long practice in jumping intellectual hurdles will better adjust itself to the changing needs of the time and more easily follow the path of truth through the labyrinth of ignorance and bewilderment. The mind is to be trained to follow things to their logical conclusion, to seek for the truth from its original sources; and, above all, to weigh in the scales of mature deliberation the puzzling questions of the day, and to see in their true proportion, through...
...sentiments--a community which already has sent the shades of ancient horsecars and the good old days to perdition with garish, glaring lights; a community which demands in the Harvard Square station, of all demands that might have been made, an escalator. Think of rising from a Daedalian subterranean labyrinth through the jaws of Hadrian's tomb into the doors of College House--by an escalator. It is an insult to antiquity...