Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first place, to clear the way, education as a profession is essentially an art. One may have made a profound study of the science of education and yet have had no experience whatever in practical work. We all understand that some of the very best work that has been done in the science of education, has been done by those outside of our ranks. So I take it that it is not concerning that sort of educational career that you wish me to speak. Herbert Spencer would be an example of the men who have made notable contributions to education...
...builds from Hawthorne's satire of coxcombry and charlatanism, "a tragedy of the ludicrous." In Hawthorne, "the scarecrow Feathertop is ridiculous, as the emblem of a superficial fop;" in Mr. MacKaye's play, "the scarecrow Ravensbane is pitiful, as the emblem of human bathos." The play has a profound significance. It shows man growing through sympathy and affection from a thing of straw into a spiritual being...
Francis Barton Gummere, a delegate from Haverford College; a man of letters with a command of literature profound and wide; delightful writer on the origin of English poetry, whose love of song has made the history of song more lovely...
...what the ultimate sources of opinion are, and how they are handled by those who profess it. Only in this way is he likely to gain the solidity of thought that begets sound thinking. In short, he ought, so far as in him lies, to be both broad and profound...
...nothing to frighten the timid newcomer in the buskined jester who holds the foaming glass on high. His welcome is rousing. It is echoed, though less boisterously, in the first editorial, which is devoted to the Freshman class. One sentence in this editorial is significant as showing the profound insight of the present board into the condition of Lampoon humor. "To an honored few of you," speaks the oracle, "will undoubtedly come the honor of rejuvenating the Great University Comie." This prophecy so modestly expressed, may be only a pious hope; let us humbly pray, however, for its fulfillment...