Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought to kneel to worship the brave hero who should defy the current cake of though. Someone has said,--"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread", but I question whether the world should ever have advanced had we never had these so called "fools". A study of historical progress might seem then, according to this thesis, a study of fools in chronological order beginning with Socrates and following through with Erasmus, Copernicus, Bruno, Sir Thomas Moore, Tolstoy, Darwin, and last...
...result, even though drawn from such uncertain sources, may fulfill the warmest hopes of the investigators in its reversal of accepted facts. But it can interest educators only in so far as it takes from them one more weapon in their futile battle with the business men who question the worth of college education. Although those worn figures can have no vital part in the individual's appraisement of his own culture, the educated must regret the passing of the only mutually understand dable data with which they could confront such rabid materialists as Roger Herbs...
...Worcester has also made a change in the manner in which the course is conducted. At the end of each lecture the students will be given printed questionnaires covering the talk just completed and containing five questions. One of these questoins will be the subject of a short quiz at the following meeting, and the questions on the final examination will also be taken from these question sheets. At the end of the course in February, a one-hour test will be given, to pass which a knowledge of the lectures will be necessary. A student who fails to receive...
Having travelled 8,000 miles to and fro through the Solid South, Nominee Robinson said: "Without doubt, the religious question is foremost...
...Extra curriculum activities at Oxford are decidedly secondary." Maud answered, responding to a question. "One can serve both God and Mammon there because of their relative importance in our minds. Outside activities are necessary to some extent, but they do not encroach upon the primary motive of our college life, studies. Such a paper as the CRIMSON would be entirely too much of an effort for us to make and still devote ourselves to studies...