Word: saneness
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...fear that the undergraduates will put something over on it. The student of English, however good his record, goes through College continually under suspicion. The professors are terrified by the fear that undergraduates will concentrate in literature because it is a snap. They throw overboard all principles of sane scholarship and intelligent teaching in order to make their courses hard. Fearing intelligence, because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There is no question longer than twenty minutes, and all these little...
...seduce their handsomest daughter, Martha. In a feverish vision Ann realizes what has happened, pines for Patrick. The horse-faced woman snaps at the situation, meat for malicious machinations, invites Patrick and Ann arid Martha to her Mediterranean castle. For seven days the mistral blows them all madly sane. Martha pitches herself over a cliff into a raging forest-fire; Ann returns wanly to Peregrine...
...this re-attainment of perspective, a movement looking toward the sane use of a good thing, the faculty of the Harvard Law School should take the lead. The students should not be left to cut through the fog alone. To ignore or belittle the problem or discourage its discussion cannot in any event suppress its open agitation much longer. The experience of the men who have to use the casebooks demands a fair and candid re-examination of the rational basis of the case system and its re-evaluation with reference to the separate subjects to which it is applied...
...Theologian, just an old-fashioned fellow who learned-and still understands-the Commandments run thus: 6th: Thou shalt not commit adultery. 7th: Thou shalt not steal. Am I out-of-date? Have the Commandments been shifted? If so, by whom? when? why? To supremely subtle, sublimely succinct, superlatively sane TIME I turn for correct information. J. J. SHERLOCK Hollywood, Calif. Unless Subscriber Sherlock learned his commandments from the Vatican account of Exodus, he has forgotten his early schooling. In Bible texts today, Deuteronomy & Exodus concur: 6th: murder 7th: adultery 8th: stealing-ED. Secretary Morton
...American mind, trained in Hoover individualism, as clerical support is a public system that might be scented with State Socialism. Beside private philanthropy, there is no other means in this country for the man born with the ivory tower mind but without the ivory tower; and a sane method of guiding such philanthropy is extremely important...