Word: supermen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee, moreover, should have an eye to the practical difficulties which all radical departures from established traditions are sure to encounter. It should mix caution with courage. Nothing is easier than to outline an ideal scheme of college education based on the hypothesis that all teachers are supermen and that all students are paragons of industry. But unhappily on such Utopian conditions are in sight. What we want is something that will point the way to a better use of the human material at hand. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...appoint a certain number of natural leaders, class officers, men who have been recognized by their fellows for leadership and capacity? The undergraduates would be tremendously inspired by such men. There are two answers to this suggestion: the first is the simple one that these undergraduate supermen would not in general accept any position we could offer them; they would not make the sacrifices required by the academic life. And the second answer is this: thirty years ago Harvard was the largest university in the country. Today all that is changed. We shall never again have that position. There...
...second Edmund Burke has arisen through the prophetic columns of the Century to discover a new group at work in the body politic: the Fifth Estate. This is composed of those "having the simplicity to wonder, the ability to question, the power to generalize, the capacity to apply"--verily supermen! Each of the old estates was welded together by social cohesion, ecclesiastical unity, economic community, or occupational amity. The nobles, the clergy, the middle class, and the press each have found their vantage point from which to act as a lever upon society. But can this fifth estate of intelligentsia...
...clothing as the law allows, so disporting herself as to show a maximum amount of nudity compatible with retention of second-class mailing privileges. Within the cover one finds the same theme played up. ... Nor is the male neglected. Macfadden himself in various stages of undress, and various other supermen with little on but a surcingle doubtless attract many quarters? from girls and women who feel the biologic urge...
...facilities are greatly expanded, the treatment must remain what it is?a cure for a limited number, not a widespread means of promoting the general health of children, stimulating growth and obviating the bone-troubles of the race. So used, it might be possible to develop a race of supermen, immune to rickets, rheumatism and bowlegs. At the present time, the most practical application of the discovery is the production of superbroilers...