Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...America, where people form their own opinions and emotions. "We hate as one," said Lissauer's Hymn of Hate, and that was good German system, organization, propaganda. Here we work out our national salvation on a different plan. The individual rules. Tell him the facts and let him react as he wills. So runs the American idea...
...eyes, yet he was a nationalist, and had a firm, and reasonably constructive view of foreign affairs. The victorious parties have no leadership, except from Berlin, and no principles, except to show their appreciation for democracy by openly fighting for autocracy. Until, worn out by their excesses, the people react and demand a conservative, stable government, there is no hope for the Allies from Russia, and judging from past revolutions that period will be long. Nations have seen years of blood before the new and better era dawned...
...stated the conclusion which logically follows: namely, that, since the university clientele in England is of the governing class, university sport is above and beyond popular and especially popular newspaper criticism. 'Varsity sport has its influence on the sports of the nation. But the sports of the people react scarcely at all on the universities. In this country, on the contrary, as regards football, university sport is the sport of the people. The real name of 'American' football is intercollegiate football. Last fall, according to Parke Davis, more than six million persons paid to see American college teams play football...
...university in control of the teaching and the small college (within the university) doing much for youth on the cultural and social sides. Like Princeton, following the lead set by Woodrow Wilson, Harvard that of A. Lawrence Lowell, and Amherst that of Alexander Meiklejohn, Yale is beginning to react favorably on the popular demand that in some way culture, scholarship and intellectuality be restored to a dominant place in the American national academic ideal, from which it has been ousted by athletics, fraternity excesses and premature specialization in order to get a living promptly after graduation...
Professor Bergson said that philosophy was born of the imperative need of man to react against the impression of universal death. It is a defensive reaction of the psychological organism which finds no satisfaction in considering events merely as a succession of sentiments, sensations, and ideas. Its problem is to determine in what the longed-for stability consists...