Word: thing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...significant thing is that the Princeton faculty hopes that the movement of the little company of sophomore reformers will succeed. The club elections have come to be too important a feature of school life, almost making or marring a college course. The best men do not always disclose themselves during the two years in which the upper classmen are "looking over the material" and making their selections for the coveted memberships. Some men are good mixers and others are shy and make their way slowly. Some are predominantly athletic, some altogether athletic, some are grinds and others are general good...
...American college is on trial and probation as to whether it is worth while or whether the men who go to college get the thing for which they started...
...close approach to the kernel of the matter is contained in a statement of President Lowell's that "Culture . . . does not mean the possession of a body of knowledge common to all educated men, for there is no such thing today. It denotes rather an attitude of mind than a specific amount of information...
...receptive attitude of mind is the chief essential of conversation. Possessing it, there is no reason why even specialists may not engage in conversation to the interest and advantage of either party. an attitude of intellectual receptivity is the really great thing which a college can give students. It is more than the essential quality of culture; it is the basis of civilization...
...kept his secret, and the challenge "to make war on war" is virtually a sealed book. All this may be highly commended, for what didactic influence Shaw is attempting to make, is sent out over the footlights with a subtlety and belief that "the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick." Shaw forces moral and ethical discussion on us, but our throat is not crammed so full as to interfere with our occasional giggle, which we need to have on hand when we are communing with this British enigma. His whole purpose seems...