Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lest you should think me unduly aroused over a matter of form, let me say that I recently sent you a two years' subscription and shall probably repeat it if the opportunity is offered...
Pale, haggard, he sought the villa of Joseph Farinelli, his wealthy friend. His bodyguard, 20 strong, was swelled by a cordon of Swiss police desperately uneasy lest he be assassinated. Secretly he returned the official calls of his distinguished confréres, who were busy with the final details of the Pact. In these last-minute negotiations he took no part. With the fears and the aloofness of a Sultan he remained secluded until the hour when he must add his pen scratch to the others...
...overcome the defects of mere efficiency by mere inefficiency. To light a cigarette, stretch one's legs on the desk, and indulge in aimless, endless talk leads to wisdom no more than does the mechanical taking of notes or the frenzied cramming for an examination. We should watch lest the tutorial method degrade the process of learning into a form of intellectual journalism; in practice it should involve serious work and surely as much preparation in the way of reading and thinking on the part of the student as any other of his academic activities...
...revolt of youth. ... It must be perfectly evident that we are becoming more and more dependent upon things, upon conveniences -falsely socalled. Motor cars are used to such a degree that millions of human legs have become almost atrophied. Students have to be transported across the campus lest they should arrive at their classes in a state of physical exhaustion. I was at an institution of learning some months ago where the boys turned on the victrola to dress by. A young man who cannot put on his shirt without being entertained can hardly be said to possess independent intellectual...
...CRIMSON is convinced that the aim of a College should be to produce, not scholars merely, but complete men in every sense of the term, men prepared for lives of active leadership in the world. A man of this type has the following characteristics which, lest it be said the CRIMSON is no authority on such matters, are taken directly from Plato...