Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lively organization as long as they were in College, but undergraduate interest in it has grown less and less every year until today few but the dowagers of Brattle Street wander upstairs to look at its exhibitions. Who directs it, and why, remains to most a profound mystery, and it would no doubt have passed out of the control of undergraduates long since had not the trustees resisted such a change...
...profound believer in research and in tutors carrying on some research. There is a spontaneity of enthusiasm that can then be passed on to a student. If the man be mature enough to put a sufficient check on his major interest so that the student may get a broader view of the field, and yet be led to see the problems it contains, I believe the research aspect is wholesome and stimulating. Personally I am afraid tutorial guidance is often factual alone, and becomes a "hum-drum" to the student--just one more piece of work. On that plane, tutorial...
Apart from the basic misapprehension involved in its thesis. "The Heavenly city" is an excellent book. It is delightful to find a scholarly work on a profound subject written with such complete absence of pedantry. Professor Becker carries his learning lightly and the evident relish with which his sophisticated intellect exposes the "rationalizations" and illusions of the men who "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials" gives a fine zest to his book. "The Heavenly City" is a treasure-chest for the student of the Revolution and it ought...
...last May the present Chamber has patently not "found itself." Its Deputies are so assorted that they should (French wiseacres agree) support a Cabinet of the moderate Left. But two such Cabinets have been capriciously kicked out at moments of national crisis. Last week President Albert Lebrun wondered with profound puzzlement whom to pick as the next premier...
...years as Harvard's chief executive. But when he says that "Everything in a University is a means to a distant end," President Lowell is sounding the Keynote not only to his administration but less obviously to this, his final bequest to his successors. With the clear foresight and profound understanding that have distinguished him as a builder, he outlines, for the guidance of those who must carry on, the foundations upon which his work has rested and upon which theirs must rest, if it is to fulfill the ideal...