Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pardonable weakness that makes the symbol of a degree still count for more in the mind of the student than the petty wastes that may make it up. Since safety must remain a prime consideration when one seeks such ultimates it seems possible for Harvard to recognize that. a) The courses in French and German which fulfill the reading requirement are now taken by the majority for that purpose alone. b) The present mechanical nature of their value might be forfeitable altered by a reshaping of each course either to a rough reading outline of the nation's literature...
...spoken tersely, beginning as follows: 'To my mind, there are three fundamental issues in this campaign, each going to the very heart of our government itself...
...chicken in every pot," had "filled the workingman's dinner pail and his gasoline tank besides and placed the whole nation in the silk-stocking class." Said Nominee Smith: "Now, just draw on your imagination for a moment and see if you can in your mind's eye picture a man at $17.30 a week going out to a chicken dinner in his own automobile, with silk socks...
...materialism. Just how science and the machine have affected civilization; just what the possibilities are of self-destruction, "decline," as compared with perpetuity?these are questions for a modern Aristotle with "all knowledge" in his mastermind. But all knowledge having expanded beyond the scope of one mind, Editor Beard has assembled 17 minds to answer the riddle. Their guesses carry the weight of authority, for their names read like an honor roll of intelligentsia...
...fact, philosophy is challenged as never before. John Dewey, that supreme genius of mind and spirit, recognizes the philosophic possibility of subjecting this industrial civilization "to a more ordered dominion of the spirit...