Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lights. The average undergraduate tends to meet studies like philosophy, psychology, economics, general history, with a frankly puzzled wonder. A whole new world seems to dawn upon him, in its setting and vocabulary alien to anything in his previous life. Every teacher knows this baffling resistance of the undergraduate mind...
...much that the student resists facts and details. He will absorb trusts and labor unions, municipal government and direct primaries, the poems of Matthew Arnold, and James's theory of the emotions. There is no unkindliness of his mind towards fairly concrete material. What he is more or less impervious to is points-of-view, interpretations. He seems to lack philosophy. The college has to let too many undergraduates pass out into professional and business life, not only without the germ of a philosophy, but without any desire for an interpretative clue through the maze. In this respect the American...
...Young America" was written round the juvenile court idea, and with this institution as a background; the author has treated the life of the youthful offenders with such understanding sympathy that he brought forth many such comments as that of the New York press: "Memory fails to bring to mind a more human and affecting bit of playwriting than this modest and unassuming little piece...
What is the remedy for this condition? Thought! The conversation need not be "sissy." It need not be high-brow. It may abound in swear words and lines with a double meaning. Is there any reason why conversation cannot show intelligent effort of the mind? Is there any reason why meal times cannot be a period of intellectual stimulus...
...months is written in such a vein as to leave the impression that the Germany of today is not the real Germany, that it is a perversion of its former self, and that the delivery of the German people from this perverted state and the restoration of the German mind to its earlier and truer type is a demand of humanity, and the real issue of the present war. I have no doubt that most of the persons who hold this view hold it in all seriousness and candor. It therefore seems to me eminently worth while to discuss...