Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great teaching is rare. It is a divine gift. But, whereas the great teacher is a source of spontaneous inspiration to his students, there is no reason why the supposedly ordinary teacher should cease trying to inspire his students. Students are not isolerant of the man who is trying to teach to the best of his ability. And such men, those who are primarily interested in teaching, the college needs, for the time will come we shall find that, by avoiding the responsibility of the actual task of imparting learning in order to devote more time to meticulously unravelling...
Since to declare the "military phase" completed last week, seemed incredibly premature, observers sought some other reason for Chiang's resignation. They noted that it was followed immediately by the appointment of Nationalist Foreign Minister of Dr. C. J. Wang-a henchman of Feng Yu-hsiang. They deemed the notorious "Christian" dangerously in the ascendant, both at Nanking and in the Peking-Tientsin area...
Died. William Alexander Guerry, 66, Bishop of the South Carolina Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church; shot, for no known reason, by the Rev. J. H. Woodward, retired clergyman in his diocese. Assassin Woodward committed suicide immediately after firing at the bishop...
...Architect Stanford White (1906), was tapped on the shoulder as he prepared to disembark from the Aquitania at Southampton, England. A steward asked him to go to the lounge where a British immigration official told him that he was not permitted to set foot on British soil. The only reason given him was "instructions from the Home Office." Befuddled, vexed, Mr. Thaw told reporters: "This is amazing. I cannot understand it at all. England was fair and square when I was here before, 23 years ago. ... I am a friend of Secretary Mellon. I have wired him. . . ." Later, Mr. Thaw...
Consequences, in their full extent, are not to be perceived or judged by the reason alone. It is in agreement with this aphorism that the undergraduate who convinces himself prominence in a single sport is worth abandonment of his scholastic hopes, the business man who decides in favor of practices yielding immediate profit, the politician who discards platform policies to enter an oil cabal may all be following the path that seems to them the irrefutable correct one Philosophers and moralists, confronted with this ethical dilemma, have had recourse to various phrasings of the Golden Rule, saying that there...