Word: needs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Does not the American nation, a nation of action par excellence, need contemplation...
...What does human nature need most in your estimation...
James's modesty aside, the Ithacans need more than luck to win those close ones. The Red team is strong and must be given the nod over Yale. The "nod," though, will be only slight, because the Bulldogs are making last season no more than a bad memory by staying undefeated, untied, and unscored upon in three games...
...given four years can be considered a course in moral philosophy. These people are concerned about moral behavior and attitude, and usually see all of life as an object lesson. But for the student who comes to Harvard lacking such concerns--and these are the ones who most need such a course--it is as likely as not that they will go through four years here without having been stimulated in this area to any appreciable degree...
Professor Demos quotes Whitehead in connecting moral education with "visions of greatness." At Harvard we have the opportunity to come into contact with greatness in many forms, through the curriculum, and through association with professors and students, some of whom may possess greatness in one way or another. We need to look for it, and to desire to see it. But we also need to learn how to recognize these visions, and how to transform them into experience that will have both beauty and meaning for our lives...