Word: saneness
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...vast responsibilities. For over a century and a half America proceeded upon the theory that if you open all grades of education to all kinds of minds, and leave them open and without cost to the individual, the natural leaders will automatically emerge. But they have not emerged. Sound, sane, informed leadership has failed the nation more and more as she has extended her system of wide-open training schools...
...under private control and 260 junior colleges in the United States in 1926, according to The World Almanac. The value of their property alone, in 1927, was estimated at $2,413,748,981. The spiritual returns from this investment are incalculable, but America is in desperate need of some sane and safe method of separating the sheep--always few in number in intellectual pasture lands--from the multitude of goats...
Despite this progress, surprisingly rapid since 1902 and surprisingly sane, the chasm which separated the educated privileged classes from the uneducated masses has not yet been fully bridged. Much remains to be done before the selfish old system which reserved education for the privileged classes is finally overthrown, but it is only fair to say that today both the "public schools" and the universities of England, old as well as new, are open to talent, no matter what the accidents of birth. At Oxford it has been recently shown, "out of 1,263 male students who matriculated in the year...
Once a person is committed to an insane asylum, his chances of getting out are small. The more he insists that he is sane, the more suspicion he attracts to himself. The struggle to convince can arouse actual dementia.* There are no precise gauges of mental normality...
...nations can cooperate: in the railroad, coal, and chemical industries, for example. Premier Laval is wisely encouraging this work. The cordial reception of Bruening and Curtius in Paris, and the pending visit of Laval to Berlin, show that both countries are approaching the political crisis in a sane spirit...