Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...move was prompted by the success, of the Freshman Common Rooms. At first these also were little used, although they were equipped with everything that a modern club usually has, such as a piano, comfortable lounges, chairs, magazines, and a few books. But the rooms for some reason failed to attract the Freshmen until the idea of having some of the proctors start discussion groups after dinner was initiated. A fire was kept going all the time and coffee was served. The Common Rooms are now a success, as is evidenced by the large number of first year...
...reason that young men come to the age of eighteen with minds less trained than their contemporaries in Europe is to be found chiefly in the fact that they begin their schooling later, and in the early years proceed less rapidly. Masters of secondary schools have often asserted that they could prepare boys for college earlier if sent to them younger, and there can be no doubt that boys would be prepared earlier if there were a demand for it. But although a feeling appears to be gaining ground that education is finished at too advanced...
...traditions; to which the reply was made that there was one tradition of which the speaker would doubtless approve, and that was the tradition of frequent change. We certainly have that tradition here, for we have been continually making experiments, and we hope wise ones. We have, indeed, some reason to suppose so, because they are being made in a definite direction with a constant object. That object, so far as the students are concerned, is to provoke an ambition and cultivate a habit leading to self-education,--the only education that is later self-starting and self -propelling...
...feelings of the average fed-up layman are approximately the same as his attitude toward Sandino and Diaz and their little quarrel. He rather hopes it will be a "dog eat dog" fight. There is no good reason why one should not decorate his billet doux and otherwise to his heart's content providing the posters bear no improper sentiments. And of course there is no good reason why he should, especially if the Postal authorities object. However, much as one may dislike propaganda of any sort plastered over his private correspondence, the line here seems to be rather arbitrarily...
...critic--even the trained critic versed in past as well as present literature--is never infallible. Professorial critics, however, who of all others should render verdicts most trustworthy, make too frequent concessions to that infallibility. Because one's judgement is respected by thousands is no reason for one to hall each worthy book as a new masterpiece--even though the foundation of one's criticism be admittedly purely personal and individual. Professor Phelps is undoubtedly the target for the Nation's rebuke, and it must be admitted that Professor Phelps has given sufficient cause on certain occasions. His penchant...