Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public demand for a craze is becoming if not less insistent, at least temporarily more sane "Ask Me Another", according to those who know, is the latest of twentieth century parlor games. To be successful in this newest diversion one must be equipped with encyclopedic knowledge, a devilish curiosity, and a detailed information on subjects ranging from to quote examples from the Transcript Wagner to "four important breeds of dairy cattle." The dilettantes will accordingly, remain to blush unseen, for the last requirement of victory is a college education. Ignorance is no longer a la mode...
...have, however, investigated and studied conditions thoroughly, and although we are confident that competent men of vision and experience are guiding the University successfully through a period of crisis and change in American education, we have worked out a program for the sane and natural discussion of problems vitally affecting the undergraduates. We will present with a view to practicality our ideas on fraternities, chapel, unity and population, the endowment drive, the English system of education and other perlish system of education and other pertinent questions since the News is recognized by alumni and the Press as official spokesman...
...that what the student needs is not "to see life clearly, and to see it whole", but to see a certain element in life which no end of college training will if unaided fail to give him. i. e. worthwhileness. The only possible cause of suicide for the sane human being is that values have lost their meaning for him. When his mental acuteness is being sharpened in the process of education, he becomes gradually more conscious with his increasing introspective powers, of his own failure to grasp any significance in life which will make it seem worthwhile...
...last month four presumably sane members of American college undergraduate bodies have committed suicide...
...other words, to be merely destructive criticism, or wild-eyed and impractical idealism: The very fear which prompts the suppression complex is realized. The more professional educators realize this, and the more they lend their active interest and encouragement, the more this undergraduate movement will be productive of sane, practical, and constructive work...