Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mentioned the inevitable frequency with which men are dismissed after nine years as faculty members, nor given the Fine Arts Department a bow for its solatium of a year's salary, nor allowed himself to contemplate the many other possible causes for dismissal. Such an approach suggests passion rather than reason...
...essay by John Reed '10 on the early days of the Socialist Club, deserves to be read by every undergraduate. The "lonely thinkers" and perfervid reformers in the Harvard of 1908 have yielded place to a more sociable and many-sided generation, as I believe. Yet the intellectual passion of that fragrant era ought to be marked and remembered...
...weeks in columns which, if placed end to end, would probably reach from Portland to Tallahassee. With the self mortifying zeal of Simon Stylites (since the News is in the middle of the corrupt business which it is trying to clean up) it has told of Yale's perverted passion for "campus prestige." Everyone, we are informed, dives into the rough-and-tumble for extra-curricular honors. No place at Yale for the lonely stag, the wall flower; every man has to make his "Y" in something or other. Studies can ride--they're not important. But the canker...
...Italy's celebrated crippled poet, Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). The author of the piece, a young Italian critic who had dug up. much new material on Leopardi, admitted, the poet was "never very strong," but suggested that Leopardi's poor health may have been aggravated by his passion for ice cream...
...more ominous part of the pronouncement, however, is its indication of the extent to which we have allowed ourselves to be motivated by the impulses of hatred. In our passion for justice and our sympathy for persecuted peoples we have allowed our emotions to run away with us until we would correct that wrong by the imposition of further injustice upon the German people. . . . Once we give in to hatred and bitterness we have begun to be like unto them (the Fascist nations). For the Fascists love their friends and hate their enemies, too; and what do ye more than...