Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despite this inevitable strain of sadness, Mr. O'Brien's new book is a delightfully readable book overflowing with the joy of living. The author went to Tahitit to play--not to make scientific investigations or profound deducts on the benefits and evils of our civilization. He cannot help noting the terrible havoc which has been wrought through all Ocean, but he does not let this hang too heavily upon...
...profound preparations which the War Department, the Department of Justice, and the American Legion are reported to be making for the recapture, by force or diplomacy, of the draft-evader Bergdoll, suggest going hunting for mosquitoes with a battery of field artillery. The magnitude of the force and insignificance of the game are quite comparable in the two cases. That it would be pleasant to see him behind bars again, is undeniable: but surely the usefulness of his punishment as a deterrent of similar desertions is long since past. Success would only satisfy a natural though some what primitive desire...
...returning to one of the professional schools. This was perhaps due in part to a desire for a rest in preparation for the board graduate work, and partly to the necessity of earning the funds for that work. More recently the modern tendency to hurry has lead to a profound change. Men are entering the professional schools immediately after graduation, preferring to borrow the needed money and push themselves right through, rather than to wait and earn it by teaching. The present-day youth has no time to spend on stop-gaps...
...Markham was what qualities he thought constituted a real poet. "A real poet must first of all be a real man, he must be a man with ideals, noble emotions, and sensitive organisms which respond quickly to the beauties and wonders of the world. He must have a profound mind, so that he has a big philosophy of life; for every great poet is also a great philosopher, and yet he does not put his philosophy before us in the form of a Kant, a William James, or a Josiah Royce. For these men deal largely in abstract expression...
...with the same feeling which caused Cicero to proclaim "O! tempora, O! mores!", that I would like to make a protest against the board of editors of the CRIMSON including a student with the profound ignorance of the writer of yesterday's editorial on "British...