Word: remain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slightest acquaintance with philosophy as expressed in the writings of its disciples, the idea of philosophy, forced upon an uncongenial mind, is as crude as its ludicrous. Yet no one in this age of mechanical method and mass manner can call himself a true student, does he remain uncongenial to philosophy. For philosophy, to mention the obvious, is the circle of which all the sciences and history and literature and the segments. It is man's attempt to see the whole in a manner abstracted from the prejudices of flesh and the trivialities of custom. And thus, when properly revealed...
...good time to stage the final act in this great political and diplomatic drama, from the Franco-Russian point of view for several reasons. Most important of these was the growing friendliness between Germany and England. France and Russia were afraid that if they waited too long England might remain neutral in case of war which would be a fatal blow to their hopes of certain victory over the Central Powers...
...plan either trivial, or inadequate. By removing what must always remain little more than the culminating expression of fact-knowledge, the ambitious scholar is thus able to spend his senior year in work sufficiently individual to justify his continuance in the college. Such a means of proving his acquaintance with scholarship is too near the under class of preparatory method. That it is needed as a justification for further work in a less frigid manner is obvious--as obvious as the fact that the senior candidate for distinction has passed beyond the desire for such expression of accomplishment. Freed from...
...exhibition, which is open to the public, will remain on view until April...
...college, in the first place, must remain large. Yet it also must remain efficient. To do both and continue as one unit in the present sense, is to become a machine. And culture has yet to result from the functioning, however perfect, of a machine. So there is only one possible method of maintaining the tradition and preserving the culture of less hurried years: that is to divide the college into small units under the same head. This, of course, does not mean that Harvard is to be chopped into bits and thown into the jaws of modernity. It suggests...