Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard men we can contribute to American culture the particular qualities of the University and its environment. Perhaps this is a sort of provincialism; but I prefer a vital provincialism to an emasculated nationalism, if we are concerned with the development of intellectual diversity. It is an obvious paradox that at institutions professing to reflect the American spirit in all its variety, democracy has invested the campus with a drab sameness. Cosmopolitanism, too, has its defects; and not the least of these is superficiality...
...Shaler, Royce and William James; but almost as indisputably he stood apart from it--was never really of it. To the fetich of German "scientific" scholarship, the true divinity of which no one then doubted, he paid scant homage. His mind worked by flashes--flashes of wit, of iconoclastic paradox, of profound intelligence and of almost magical divination; but still, as it seemed to academic Cambridge, it worked uncanonically, irresponsibly. His knowledge was wide and luminous; on most of the subjects of which he wrote it was exhaustive; yet always it was the knowledge not of the researcher nor even...
Chesterton is making his first lectures in Boston on his tour of the United States. He is probably one of the greatest minds in England today, and whatever paradoxical thing he has to say will be well worth hearing. The subjects he has chosen to talk about are decidedly characteristic of the heralded "Prince of Paradox." They are: "The Perils of Health." "Should We Illiminate the Inevitable," and "The Ignorance of the Educated." He is speaking at Jordan Hall, Boston, on the evenings of January...
...reason for this is the undeniable paradox, that those who give most to their college are also those who get the most from it. Thus, for purely selfish reasons, it would seem advisable to become an active rather than a passive member of the college community...
...question immediately arises, how can we accomplish the sweeping changes that are necessary, when the very institutions which we aim to attack are incorporated in the Constitution. The immutability of the Constitution has become a paradox. Radical though the proposed changes may seem, we should not fear to accept a responsibility on which depends the accomplishment of good government in the future. The foundations of the Constitution are still sound, but a thorough reorganization of departments and legislative method should take place. The number of departments should be reduced to a minimum, each subdivided into a series of sections whose...