Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the hardest working member of the Supreme Court, going to his office at 7 a. m. and often continuing into the night. His theory is that a search for the truth, if carried far enough, will always obliterate any conflict of opinion. His words are few-almost epigrammatic: "Instead of amending the Constitution, I would amend men's economic and social ideas...
...often the case that men of standing and ability shun public office because of the difficulties they are likely to encounter through the trickery of cheap politicians...
...days of old so often celebrated things were much different at least at Yale. Trembling in his homespuns at the sight of a superior if only in age the poor Freshman was parceled out, body and clothing all to be regulated by a different set of rules. Each move of the first year underlings might involve the breaking of a rule for which fracture or infringement he might be hailed to the bar of upper class justice to be tried converted and sentenced to bed without supper all within five brief minutes...
...well and intelligently because he chooses to point out those exponents of it who are worthy of praise. That Goethe's "Gah mitein Gott zu sagen was ich leids" is expressed in a good many of the moderns is not to be denied and that this expression is often artistic and beautiful is likewise true. But the idea of self expression "to help gave the world" would hardly fit in with true Romanticist idea of the order of things. The ground work of art in human experience does not allow it to become objective in the role of a savior...
...famed individualism cultivated so extensively by the Harvard undergraduate is all very well in its place but it often leads to a failure to realize that he is after all merely a member of a community of other men, that the world is not made for him alone. That is what they tell the 6 year old child in Sunday School but it is true notwithstanding and therefore worth repeating when it is forgotten. The problem of adjustment, like other problems, cannot be solved by ignoring it. All these student conferences and reports on world peace, student military training, football...