Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is an air of foolishness about it all--this serious, cold-blooded hunting of a "spook", that appeals to one's sense of the ludicrous. Yet there is a certain reluctance, too, to see an old romantic supposition thus thrown overboard, and "ghaieties, and ghoulies, and things that go...
Years ago, people who were considered educated were usually conversant upon subjects of general knowledge in every field. Today, relatively few college students can answer the memory questions which appear in a number of daily papers. They are bound down to one line of enterprise, to one field of study...
The spirit of service, shown in the work for foreign students, is also exemplified in the social service activities carries n in our own immediate community. It has been said that Brooks House serves as a clearing house where generous minded young men in the University may learn how to...
Yet the Bryn Mawr suggestion leaves us not altogether comfortable. When we recollect an incident of two years ago, in which a little group of willful Freshmen broke up a Bolshevist meeting in Roxbury; when we think of the audiences--or the absence of audiences--at certain voluntary addresses on...
It is hard to bear up under such scorn. Far be it from us to enter into an argument about historical methods; but such a naive view of Harvard and its professoriat, having little to do with the review of history books, falls within the range of editorial comment. We...