Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that the undergraduate publications have attacked it, but their attitude indicates not so much antagonism to the house plan as dissatisfaction because they were not informed about the progress of events. We venture to say, for instance, that the CRIMSON would have shown a quite different state of mind if its representatives had known what was going on from moment to moment. Further, there are reasons for believing that the undergraduate papers do not reflect undergraduate sentiment as a whole. Even the social clubs, which at first were inclined to look with disfavor on the house plan because they...
...twentieth century mind seems unwilling to accept characters and incidents hung in mid-air by an author's fancy. Proust, Joyce. "Orlando." "Death Comes to the Archbishop," and may I say my own work all verge into the province of memories, diaries, historical narrative, and autobiography...
...ordinary mind it seems that Philanthropy delights in scattering its pearls with much the same blindfold abandon that marks the scale-handling of the sister virtue Justice. One, and almost the only, great exception continues to be the Rockefeller Foundation, which, through its many ramifications, encourages the most varied forms of culture without rousing any lay opposition to its work as unnecessary or futile. The endowment granted to the Fogg Art Museum a few weeks ago may well become a classic example of sensible generosity; and the awards of the General Education Board for literary research of importance, while...
...centuries ago; the modern man of letters must be actruly modern man, and if for no other reason than that of keeping in communication with the progress of men similarly engaged on the other side of the globe, he cannot live in monastic seclusion. As hostile to the American mind, trained in Hoover individualism, as clerical support is a public system that might be scented with State Socialism. Beside private philanthropy, there is no other means in this country for the man born with the ivory tower mind but without the ivory tower; and a sane method of guiding such...
...Foster '01, director of the Pollock Foundation for Economic Research, emphasized the significance of the teacher's role in the development of youths who are to be successful. The old system of a tedious apprenticeship, he declared, has passed, as it robbed the mind of the originality essential to leaders. Modern school and college education aims rather at sharpening the power of analysis in the individual student, thus equipping him with the means to find the issue of any problem and advance toward its solution...