Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for the change from the 70 to 75 per cent basis of selection, is due according to the English Department, to the fact that by making 70 per cent the standard, almost half of the class was excused from English A, many men who should have taken the course being exempted...
...which Dr. Butler ascribes the death of interest in the classics. No doubt a society of the widely informed, not soporific with erudition, would be the cultural utopia. But as long as civilization goes ploughing ahead in the present direction, moles seem indispensable as ground breakers. There is no reason for salvaging persons who are perfectly, if esoterically, happy, and what is more, an excellent protection against snags...
...recall, last week, the full title of that pamphlet: "Caligula: A Study of Caesarean Insanity." When published, it temporarily wrecked the good Professor's academic career?for in it he dared to suggest that Wilhelm II might fall a prey to that madness born of power which destroyed the reason of the Roman Emperor Caligula (12-41). Because Professor Quidde has continued all his life to militate against militarism and to propagate German peace societies, he loomed, last week, as a distinguished "fraternizer" in the Nobel sense...
...Some day the real superman will come. He will have a fully developed brain; he will really be civilized; he will be led by reason, and he will think. Only a few men at any time have done any real thinking. Only a handful of men think now. Some day, because a majority of men think and have reconstructed society, governments will endure...
...reviewer of the Lampoon commends the admirable restraint exhibited by omission of the obvious reference to "indifferent horsemanship." The Granta, possibly justifiably, saw no reason to exclude the obvious and its American number is liberally sprinkled with remarks concerning those things by which the United States is known to the Englishman: Hollywood, Mayor Thompson of Chicago, and banditry--of Chicago and elsewhere...