Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...forego the privilege of getting together for an address which they will long remember and for an inspiring half-hour, they may indulge their wish. In that case we shall have a poor opinion of the intellectual aspirations of the class. We shall not only feel that 1921 is stupid and selfish to its better development, but we shall regret that a class has entered Harvard which seems to fall far below its predecessors in seeking to get the most out of the University...
This is a great age, perhaps a monstrous age, perhaps a divine age, but surely to be admired, even by the most stupid. Nations go to war for purposes which they but dimly feel, led on by wisdom that is not their own, to an end that they may not see. Principalities and republics are stirred by the desire for revolution, though the result of the revolving is hidden. Surely in this unrest of the nations there is ground and seed for the harvest...
...they will get what they expected. If it isn't they have either learned a great deal which is of unforgettable value, or they haven't. If they have, they have nothing to worry about, for they are the possessors of wisdom. If they haven't, they are incontestably stupid, and would learn nothing from Hindenburg, Brusiloff, and Petain conducting a seminar...
When last we had intimate and martial dealings with England, George III, King of the House of Hanover, held in his fat and unregal hand the sceptre of that nation. With what ardor our free born Americans despised him, the stupid German lordling! How the hearts of our Revolutionary heroes seethed with contempt of his bigotry and his blindness...
...everyone. Those personal powers of visualizing which have laid dormant in most of us are awakened to splendid things by the complete success with which Dame suggestion is introduced throughout. The subtle Frenchman who is responsible for this piece certainly did not regard his audience as ignoble or stupid, and honor is his for this count...