Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year readers with a taste for unusual prose and a willingness to search for cryptic significance in faction found a book that suited them perfectly in a first novel called The Asiatics. It was the work of a 78-year-old Yale professor, and it described the wanderings of an anonymous narrator from Persia to China, with careful and realistic descriptions of the extraordinary and unreal adventures he encountered on the way. These adventures ranged from a prison escape to casual encounters with the passionate overnight beauties of the Orient. Much of the strangeness of the book...
Prominent among the changed attitudes of the undergraduate today is a marked increase in social responsibility. The inertia implied in resignation to a system of laissez-faire is being challenged by a scientific search for that form of society most conducive to the common good. The undergraduate's seal for earning a living is being replaced by a desire to participate intelligently in later civic activities...
...water level in the tank fell measurably, thus indicating that the cooled stomach drew blood from the capillaries of the arm. Consequently the capillaries shrank, and the bulk of the arm with them. These changes must have some effect on heart and lungs, argued Dr. Moor, urging doctors to search for such changes...
...meet the responsibilities that lie ahead, President Conant has set up two ideals of vital importance; freedom and truth. "Absolute freedom of discussion, absolutely unmolested inquiry" are essential to the continuation of the American cultural tradition: they have disappeared (or have never appeared at all) in many lands. The search for truth is a thorny way too, implying an intellectual integrity, a willingness to face facts, and complete freedom from prejudice and passion. It is a high ideal for the future, but much the same as the spirit and purpose that motivated the Puritan forefathers when they chose for their...
...knowledge liberates man, no barrier, political, religious, or social, should be crected to stop the search for truth. It may well be your pride that you have always fought uncompromisingly for the maintenance of the principle of freedom of research...