Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from this bewildering variety of testimony for the guidance of educational policy? One thing seems to stand out clearly. The period of college life is the period in which the plasticity of youth and the maturity of manhood overlap. All influences received during this period are likely to be profound and lasting. Since his college life is almost his only life during these years, and since a student attends college not only with his mind, but with his body and his soul as well, the college touches him at every point, and is the chief moulding force during what...
...present controversy centering about Mr. Scopes has, therefore, hurled thoughtful society into profound discouragement and disillusion. Must all the intellectual battles of the last century be fought again? Does each age have to dig up old problems, solved long since, to add to the host of contemporary questions and feuds? Is it possible that a great mass, perhaps the majority of citizens of this so-called enlightened country in this day and age still believe in the literal interpretation of the account of creation in Genesis...
Signor Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy, left Rome secretly. None knew whither nor for what purpose. To make the mystery more profound, Parliament was in session and the presence of the Premier in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies was highly desirable...
...biographer "made" him, one will do well to recall Garlyle's assertion that few men's lives are worth writing. Can it be, then, that Johnson's life was intrinsically worthless? Surely no one who has read Boswell will say that. Johnson was a great character, and the most profound literary force in England in his day. He was fortunate to have had Boswell for a biographer. But Boswell's position was that of a press agent. He called the public's attention to the show, and the show is quite capable to stand upon its own merits...
...grateful tribute to Professor Norton, the nature of this memorial is peculiarly felicitous. Professor Norton did great things for Harvard and for Harvard men; President Eliot once said that he had the most profound influence on students of any man in the history of the University; he was a man of the broadest and most liberal sympathies. The very comprehensive interpretation of Poetry, therefore, is altogether in keeping with his spirit which felt the essential poetic harmony of the various arts. In the present educational era where men are tempted to specialize or at best to concentrate largely...