Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...something more noble than a mere personal aim. Although men are by nature gregarious creatures, they should not,--like sheep,--move under the simple impulse of the mass. Man has the ability to think for himself, to weigh reasons, to forecast in some degree the future, and to reflect upon the consequences of his acts. In times like these it is of vital import that his responsibility for his individual opinions should be relentlessly asserted...
...becoming. Those who are of the college know how exaggerated the danger is; the student who cannot think of five real radicals out of the hundred or more men he know is not likely to be alarmed. And here at Cambridge those acquainted with Harvard's history can reflect that ever always been some in revolt...
...Faculty has often warned his pupils that nearly every Harvard man loses his first job because it takes him considerable time to learn that he can no longer do on Friday what he should have done on Wednesday,--as he did in college. The undergraduate does not have to reflect long to appreciate the truth of this if he will consider his own attitude toward scholastic work. He has discovered that probably the only requirement of most courses which cannot be postponed is the final examination...
...that a prophet is without honor in his own country, Mr. Otto H. Kahn of New York must be an exception to the rule. In his letter to the London Times, written in the spirit of promoting good will between England and the United States, he has endeavored to reflect the psychology of the American "men in the street". By pointing out that the attitude of the average citizen "toward Europe has gradually become one of disillusionment and retrospective questioning." Mr. Kahn has apparently bit the nail squarely on the head...
...American culture the particular qualities of the University and its environment. Perhaps this is a sort of provincialism; but I prefer a vital provincialism to an emasculated nationalism, if we are concerned with the development of intellectual diversity. It is an obvious paradox that at institutions professing to reflect the American spirit in all its variety, democracy has invested the campus with a drab sameness. Cosmopolitanism, too, has its defects; and not the least of these is superficiality...