Word: logically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seniors voted to abandon a solemn tradition, the honorable and salutary practice of step-scrubbing. The picture of sedate seniors in the customary char-woman pose, washing down the steps of Founders' Hall on the Wellesley class day, was surely it picturesque survival; but the class decided, with some logic, that there were more agreeable ways of showing class loyalty and spirit...
...principles of government are most various; and must be studiously adhered to. And one must familiarize himself with the political motive, which is not quite what you would expect it to be. And in several ways the argument for inaction is cleverly developed. As an example of pure logic we have seen little that is better than this...
That life is a duty, that it should be spent in the service of college is an example of the inverted logic that stamps our campus thought. In reality, college should serve us; it should be an instrument in our lives, we should be its masters and the governors of its destiny. But instead we have become the slaves of the machine; we run hither and thither in agony of futile haste; we compete where no end is served and no result achieved; we sweat over unloved tasks and neglect the true business of life; we erect and execute useless...
...Oxford debaters were keener and more subtle than their American opponents, using the University men's arguments to their own advantage and bringing the house down again and again with laughter at their brilliant jibes. The Harvard speakers, though scarcely eloquent, displayed excellent logic and reasoning powers, and covered their ground more thoroughly than the English debaters...
...last analysis, the stimulation in the individual man of his ability to think and the willingness to follow the logic of his carefully considered thought through to conviction is the desirable ambition for the college. This presupposes the acquisition of certain fundamental knowledge, the mastery, of the technique of finding new knowledge when needed, acquaintanceship with the method of gaining access to original sources, a disposition to seek all facts and to sort these according to relative importance before accepting conclusions, and finally an open-minded tolerance for new facts if they shall appear and be proved valid, even though...