Word: profound
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...deeply the French care for the good opinion and sympathy of this University--how strongly they desire "that Harvard at least should know the truth of this war," as they often expressed it. President Eliot's views concerning it have been widely read in France, and have created a profound impression there; whatever the rest of the United States may feel and do, the French look to Harvard for assurances of friendship and understanding. Only those who have recently been in France can understand how highly such assurances are prized there today...
...which you kindly inform me that the students of Yale and Harvard Universities, as a result of a subscription, have had made four automobile ambulances, which they have charged you to present in their names to the French Red Cross..... I hasten to extend to you the expression of profound gratitude of the French Red Cross. It every day appears more apparent to the entire world how inexhaustible is the charity of the American nation.... Therefore, it is with deep sincerity that I pray you to transmit to the students of Yale and Harvard for their generous contribution the expression...
Whatever may be the value of New Year resolutions, custom decrees that on January first we start the new-born era with a more profound wisdom learned from the experience of bygone years. With all the nation it is time to take stock. To the college man, however, an even more significant date on the calendar is the mid-year period of the college session...
...Watson's study of Bandelaire under the title "The Greatest Decadent," together with the story "Poet of the Ghetto" by a Ben Sion Trynin--an obvious and awful pseudonym--remain the only things really worth while in the number. The first is, if not profound, at least refreshingly sane and balanced in these days when to be young is necessarily to be decadent--or one would imagine so from recent Monthlies. The second, apart from a shabby and sentimental plot, possesses, in dialogue and description, a sense of actuality of life on the East Side of New York that...
...power on the part of the student. It is platitudinous to say that nothing that one learns in college is of direct use in after life. Knowledge is a means, not an end. Whether that knowledge be concentrated or diversified is of little consequence so long as it is profound enough to give the desired mental power. ALFRED WALTER...