Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...specious. It has its origin in the school of pessimism--the Schopenhauerian pessimism which fears contact with the realities of life. It springs from that same suicidal philosophy which leads men to avoid marriage and women to shirk motherhood. The artist who sacrificed himself belongs to a nobler--and commoner--humanity. --London Daily Mail...
...Harvard-Yale game at the Stadium next Saturday offers us an opportunity. If a collection of money is to be made there, the fund could be put to no nobler use, or devoted to a more helpful and humane purpose, than that of providing support and additional equipment for the field service of the Ambulance Americaine in France...
...Nobler Welder, Ph.D. '13 will give the third in his course of eight lectures under the suspires of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology, on the general subject of "The Relation of Space, and Geometry to Experience," in Emerson F, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be, "The Extension of Space Beyond the Bounds of Experience." This lecture as also those that follow will be open to the public...
Whether these hopes of the future are ever fulfilled in their totality or not, our survey of the past and the present of Germany has, I trust, made it clear that the German people of today is not, as its enemies declare, a degenerate perversion of a former and nobler type. On the contrary, with all its defects and excrescences of temper, it is a splendid outgrowth of a century's training in the national application of those ideals which distinguished the classic period of German literature and philosophy: unconditional submission to duty, unremitting endeavor for intellectual advance, assiduous cultivation...
...life is always maintained, philosophy will gain ipso facto that sweet reasonableness which is so essential. But without devotion philosophy is helpless; the entire consecration and devotion of reflective thinking to the great mysteries of life alone will point out the true goal of philosophy--the saner and nobler guidance of the individual and of the human race...