Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems thus to have recoiled upon herself. The fact that she has remained aloof from the League of Nations and the World Court has not passed unnoticed by nations eager for the maintenance of international prosperity. At present, the warring factions of her senate are devising new obstacles which may prevent the passage of the Kellogg peace treaty. All this naturally creates the misleading impression that the United Statees respects only her own people, and contributes only toward their happiness...
...hence it is damned. The kernel of it all is that the blue print of the mental underworld which it submits to our attention is so compromising to us all that at bottom we recoil. Psychopathology is, like "un bon petit diable", always up to mischief, and hence may be counted upon to infuriate the disciplined thinker on the one hand and the hundred percenter on the other...
...this question we have never heard the answer. It may be the policy or the unauthorized habit of the university never to percuss too thoroughly the heart of an enterprise which presents itself clothed in an adequate endowment or perhaps the college has considered that it was safer in the long run to tame such a dangerous little animal within its own menagerie rather than allow it to run wild in the world; or it may even be possible that Harvard feels the pulse of modern life and is willing to experiment with a branch of learning which may have...
...May Awake Students...
...may turn out, moreover, that abnormal psychology will contribute to the cultural life of the university in yet another way. It may be the key to the cerebral lock of some individuals whose intellectual potentialities can be opened by no other instrument. It is a matter of common observation that, although there are some students who come to college with an enlightened zest for intellectual pursuits and others who will be forever incapable of such experiences, there are many, not without potentialities, who go through the university unscorched by the cultural torch...