Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...greatest thing that a man has to learn before he can attain any great success in college is to concentrate his energies entirely on the subject in hand--whether it be preparation for a recitation the next morning, or the assimilation of the signal code of the football team...
That so large a part of general conversation in America relates to the weather, to politics, and to sport, is not so much because these things are intrinsically more interesting or variable than in other countries, as because they are among the few subjects that everyone is familiar with and can talk about. Professional learning is, no doubt, cultivating, but standing alone, it is not culture, for the reason that it is circumscribed and includes only a narow part of the stream of thought. For a lawyer to look through the microscope of a man of science increases his means...
...small our connection with the people who strike the match, and our direct interest in the questions that caused them to do so. To the prepara- tionists, therefore, the suggestion of a league to enforce peace ought to appeal as a means of doing on an international scale the thing they are seeking to do for the United States...
...many good men ask: Why resort to military force? Why not try milder measures; a conference of the members of the league, or commercial non-intercourse? To pledge nations to declare war is a dreadful thing. Apply the same question to the maintenance of order within a city. Why have a policeman, and why should he be armed? If he sees a burglar breaking into a house, or a highwayman attacking a wayfarer, why should he not call a meeting of the city council for conference Why instead of having a police force, should not the citizens agree to boycott...
...side-shows for the main tent. We would not lose "Harvard University," which is the definitive reply to the taunt of "Harvard indifference"; but it must be recognized that too little reading is done by most men. And without doubt a solid foundation of good reading is the best thing one can carry away from his four years at College...