Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Fay's article deals with a profound reality in American life. America is yearning for a guiding aim, for something to strive after; and the historian is in a good position to give the answer to that desire. Today's world is one that has been stripped of shams and pretenses; one that has seen the veil torn away from much that passed for idealism--and from much that was idealism. This country is weary of destruction; it desires rebuilding and most of all a system of ideals. The American believes as he has always believed in his institutions...
...behind these obvious achievements is one greater and more abiding. Not so easy to measure, its value is immeasurably more profound. A quarter of a century ago Harvard College was an institution where young men could work hard and learn much if they chose, and mostly they did so choose; but it was also a place where a certain type of young man could incredibly idle and yet obtain a degree. It is not too much to say that today an idler cannot get into Harvard, and if he did get in he could not stay in. When Mr. Lowell...
...well and too widely known to make it needful for anyone to vouch for them. His abilities and his acknowledged placed as one of the leaders in thought among lawyers and law teachers speak for themselves." At the same time, he was termed as one of ablest and most profound members of the legal profession in the country by Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, retired associate justice of the United States Supreme Court...
Another light of learning already with Dr. Flexner's Institute is Professor Oswald Veblen, Princeton's mathematician. Mathematics is a brace for holding apparently unconnected phenomena together. For ordinary purposes three prongs of that brace suffice-length, breadth, height. But for profound science more grips on reality are needed-a variable time, for example And not only many grips are needed, but flexibility in their operation. The mathematical machine, most solid of the sciences, is constantly acquiring new links and kinks. One of its cleverest engineers is Professor Oswald Veblen...
...Goethe the answer to all the ills which beset us, those who know how to look can find at worst the spirit in which they must be met. Today, the Vagabond will be in Sever 13 at 9 o'clock to hear Professor Walz give a much more profound discussion of Goethe and his works...