Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never should get angry; just reflect...
...delighted and then, when I go home, and I reflect that the people who have been applauding me have received no benefit and that, indeed, whatever benefit they might have had, has been killed in the applause, I am sore at heart and I lament and I feel as though I had spoken altogether in vain." Scholar, he was lecturing to scholars. His words were not meat, he thought, for the hounds of the press and, with an almost pathetic earnestness, he tried to shoo them away.* First, the Dean insisted that the New Testament contained no detailed guidance either...
...purpose of selling this education to the public. This same business man's attitude is being recognized more and more by college students. Again and again "The New Student" receives letters from students protesting that this or that item will give their college "unfavorable publicity." It is encouraging to reflect that these students are realizing more and more that each bit of news emanating from the college must be judged from the advertising man's point of view, that each editorial must contribute in some way to building up the college's reputation as a reliable place to do business...
...Rhodes scholarships were at bottom a political gesture in a broad sense of that term. They were designed not for their influence on knowledge so much as for their influence on the students, and they were a picturesque reflection of the nineteenth century's belief in political and social salvation through mass schooling and the dissemination of knowledge. But while the dissemination of knowledge has done a great deal it has not done all that was hoped for it. The Guggenheim scholarships are designed not for the students but for the study they may do, and they reflect the awakening...
...that when Dr. Wilbur says "university", he really means "college", for even a superficial examination of the personnel of Eastern graduate schools must show that their students are drawn not from one state or one class of society, but from all over the world; and that this cosmopolitanism must reflect itself in the thought of any given institution. There can hardly be any such thing as a single type of mentality...