Word: sane
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These varying figures have some interest in showing that none of the three universities has anything like an undisputed lead in this field, but they are not to be taken too seriously. The thing of importance is the thorough, sane, and intelligent manner in which these eighteen undergraduates discuss the important questions of the day,--in a style far different from the "oratorical" contests of the Middle West. There are persons who think debating is in some mysterious way a corrupter of the youth who take part in it. Such persons take it too seriously. It is certainly an intellectual...
...places for numerous class, organization, and University gatherings; it provides lectures of great interest and profit, and furnishes club accommodations for sixteen hundred men. It is, unfortunately, in the anomalous position of serving the entire University, and yet being supported as a private club. The CRIMSON will gladly print sane expressions of opinion on the question of compulsory membership,--but no more such childish and destructive comments as that appearing today...
...appeared on the board, the best is the thoughtful "Prepared--for What?" Of Mr. E. A. LeRoy, Jr. If he is somewhat given to accepting as fact all that he reads in the newspapers, he at least reads them; and the seriousness of his attempt to arrive at sane conclusions is a welcome reassurance in the face of current talk as to the lack of intelligent interest in the war on the part of undergraduates. Mr. Burman's "Nail in the Shoe" is the best of the stories, but the reviewer is sentimental enough to wish that the cynical conclusion...
...very first sentence, which begins: "Flash! snapped the telegraph operator--," we feel the thrill of the young journalist. As a sidelight on the history of the great European struggle, the book is also valuable. He deals with the trials and tribulations of the various peoples in a very sane and sympathetic manner. The book contains a number of illustrations, most of which show interesting documents collected by the author...
...usually the older generation which holds firm in well-grooved paths the car of progress; it is the younger men who supply much of the energy and who usually point out the new directions in which progress may move. With proper flexibility and sane guidance both perform a highly valuable function in civilization. But when conservatism becomes reactionary, and when radicalism becomes flighty, the car is in danger of losing its balance...