Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book tells the story of a little group of Texas boys and their leader Bowman MacMurray. Together they make a success of their high school football and then go to Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where the effects of their presence on football are immediate and profound. Form there on it is a story of one gridiron success after another, with an interlude caused by the war, until finally the team comes against Harvard in 1920. There is the semblance of a plot with a real villain and there is also a little love interest...
...Freshman coming to Harvard for the first time this year, the machinery of the College and University government under which he is now living is a profound mystery. Even the average upperclassman does not realize that in University Hall several changes have been inaugurated. To many men not only the innovations but even the fundamentals of College administration are entirely unfamiliar...
...writing of Indian drawings Dr. Coomaraswamy has said that the keynote of Mughal art of this period is its profound interest in individual character. The portraits "bring before us the form and features of nearly every notable person in India for more than two centuries...
What we need now is not more organization or more machinery, but more thought; personal thought, clear, far reaching and profound, as unbiased and illumined, and, not least, as widespread among our people as possible, for in the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the world; and where shall we look for this multitude if not among those upon whom has been lavished the best educational opportunities that our country can produce--the graduates of our colleges...
...highest possiblt standard of liberal education; but it is crass provincialism for us to ignore the existence of other conceptions of a university's function. We fall in the quality upon which we base our pride in Harvard if we continue to think so lightly and remain in such profound ignorance as wt do now of the universities of the West. Unless we try to understand their efforts and problems we will fall equally in the service which we owe to the nation...