Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holmes further expects to see student relations and life at Harvard "more leisurely" and "happier" under the House plan. How greater leisure can he introduced into the life of a college without the relaxation of academic or extra-curriculum activity is difficult to see. In the expectation or greater happiness under the new system one can find little more than a blithe optimism common to all prophets of a utopian future...
...Russia, Italy, and with the United States' bosses and rings, was made in the explanation of his subject, "How to get an education even in colleges. "Students must first find out what they want to know," he pointed out, "and get the answers not from faculties, but from life and the experimental method. Real education consists of stating unsolved problems, never trying again an old method that has failed, and continually improving by experiment new theories, trying them over and over again...
...Holy Grail or the secret of the stars and end up in a maze of very stark, human, and rather pitiful desire. The men and women who take this pilgrimage are of all kinds, all equally well drawn. Mr. Burlap, the editor of a weekly paper who "believe in Life" and makes his paper do so too, is perhaps the most faithfully depicted...
...take issue with you on the recent denunciation in your columns of degree language requirements. May these indispensible accountrements of our college curricula forever remain aloof to scurrilous attacks of "Crime" editors. Possibly you would rejoice if you could eliminate everything connected with cerebral activity from college life. Serlously, your intellectual status is gravely questioned after the inane castigation in Thursday's edition on a revered feature of the Harvard educational ideal...
...artificial mixing within itself, turn into a closed circuit of thought, let it be remembered that, short as was the distance from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock, the distance from Widener to the Harvard Square rotunda is no longer. Harvard shows no sign of turning aloof from life...