Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First, participation is an excellent means of education. A student can learn far more about the reality of social and economic questions by group work than by mere reading or observation; this is what hard-headed men call "experience." You condone one type of action--"first-hand experience" without taking sides. But this is little more than observation, less valuable than what the educators call "learning through doing." Secondly, the Harvard Student Union hopes to give the student a place of some small importance as a doer, as well as an absorber; in doing this, it hopes to contribute...
...Lane warned his organization against becoming a mere discussion group, and stated that discussion was but the prelude to action. If "action" means repetition of last fall's fiasco, when certain members of the Labor Committee of the Student Union so approached the Boston Chapter of the C. I. O. that those worthy gentlemen took it as an invitation to pay a visit to Harvard, the less that the University has of it, the better. If "action" means public rallies, circularized pamphlets, and participation in local politics, the Union is accomplishing nothing for its greater good at Harvard...
Lane outlined the two main battles that other American Student Union chapters must flight:--for educational facilities, and for academic freedom. Although Harvard conditions warrant no such battle, Lane warned the organization against becoming a mere discussion group, stating that discussion is only a prelude to action...
These three men sought the realities of nature and instantaneous vision. Of the three Liebermann alone remained true to the impressionist manifesto. Slevogt wandered off into Rococo day dreams and Corinth soon became tired of mere surface reality and tried to probe beneath...
...melt like a fog. Anyhow, why die by inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better to die there calmly--to be run over in one quick piece--with quiet dignity to undergo the roller and come out on the other side a mere blob of jelly but retaining still a spark of self respect...