Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engineering is after all nothing but the application of science to a multitude of activities, such as; the gathering of minerals, oils, coal, and other natural products, and preparing them for use: the production of light, heat, and power from fuels and falling water; electric communications; the manufacture of chemicals, engines, machines, and innumerable commodities; railway, highway, and water transportation, and the construction and operation of numerous works for public safety and welfare. These enterprises require many kinds of talent in a great variety of duties, such as the planner, the builder the inventor, the investigator and the executive, requiring...
...supreme faculty of the human brain is imagination--the ability to see things as they are and not as they appear to be. Fact is the raw material on which imagination works. Knowledge is only the beginning of wisdom; imagination is power. The chief aim of Harvard College is not so much to gain knowledge of this or that subject as it is to gain the power to understand. Growth in understanding means the strengthening of the imagination...
...build up the imaginative faculty. This science has long been prominent in Harvard College, not only because it is interesting, but also because its students learn by long-continued practice to visualize reality. They are bound to forget details in the earths structures and processes. They cannot lose the power gained in study. That same power remains, tending to give sounder judgment in political struggle, business venture, or social activity...
Professor Munro's contribution is entitled "The Money Power in politics" and is a defense of that supposedly pernicious influence. "Revisiting a River, A Recipe for Happiness" and essay, by Professor Perry is the third of the articles...
...rather an interesting commentary on the immense gulf which separates man from the rest of the animal kingdom, that with all his supposed intellectual power, his mastery of science and physical nature, he is practically unable to look into the mind of his dog. This inability to comprehend certainly the workings of the animal mind has led to two extremes, the one typified by Descartes, who, as a serious part of his philosophy, contends that animals are as insensible as a stone or wood, and the other by the pseudo-scientific sentimentalists fill the libraries of our youth with their...