Word: princetonians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article from the Princetonian and the accompanying editorial comment dealing with the four recent undergraduate suicides which you publish in today's Crimson, lack of synthesis in the intellectual development afforded students in our present educational system is given as the possible reason. The assumption that men are motivated chiefly by intellect, rather than by an inseparable mixture of thought and feeling, is essentially false...
...which we encounter at this time we are offered no means of giving unity to chaos. The American university will not truly succeed in producing educated men until it quite frankly and without pedantry sets out to teach them "to see life clearly and to see it whole". --The Princetonian...
...Princetonian, on the other hand, part of whose comment is reprinted in another column, places the blame upon "under-education." This criticism strikes much nearer to the heart of the matter. Rendering unity out of chaos is a salutary process for the individual, and a necessary operation for the educational institution. It is hardly to be denied that the synthesis of life of which the Princetonian speaks is too often submerged under the mass of analytic facts and information with which education is today encumbered. It is a situation which has been recognized increasingly in recent years. The "civilizational" education...
...Princetonian has at least evolved a tenable diagnosis of the ill, and the suggestions that have been made are honest attempts at its cure. But much is still to be said, that will probably, for many years at least, remain unsaid. The yearning after synthesis, the desire for some more all-inclusive faith than the multiformity of modern science and modern knowledge allows, bears an affinity to romantic nostalgia that is at times a little hard to stomach. The urge that leads so many romanticists to the Catholic Church has been called the desire of the jelly-fish...
...want a rubber goose Stop barking, daddy, it's no use. Your gifts are gold but you are loose Away! I cannot care for youse. --Diogenes, Daily Princetonian...