Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardest thing in every field of endeavor, and especially in art, is thinking,--clear, hard, clean thinking. Art itself, impossible to define, must be an 'intelligent abstraction from nature'" declared Harry Irvine, noted English character actor, in the course of an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...that course a regular affair. Furthermore there is always the opportunity of becoming acquainted with a professor's ideas on a subject, in themselves of value, and the possibility of acquaintance with subjects that a student could not otherwise obtain by merely keeping to his prescribed courses. Doing the thing that doesn't have to be done is usually an additional incentive. Finally, if one finds himself in the course of his vagabonding uninterested in something which he had hoped would prove of interest, there is nothing to prevent him from giving something else a try. --Bowdoin Orient...
...England, the first thing he did was to marry his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, the granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood. The next was to publish the journal of his voyage. This made him recognised as a brilliant and important naturalist; he and the wife were invited to distinguished dinner parties which annoyed Charles Darwin. He soon stopped going to them and spent the next four years studying species at Downe, the eight years after that perusing the habits and character of barnacles. After this, he was ready. For four years, 1855-59, he wrote The Origin of Species. Until its publication...
...Some American business men", continued Dr. Stuart, "foolishly urge upon the American government armed intervention in China. If armed interference were attempted by any nation, the students would at once lead a popular uprising. The one thing that has no force in China today is force...
...Stuart finds nothing in the Chinese revolution that is not reasonable, for he says that a passionate nationalism is struggling to throw off the selfish rule of warlords, and that the important thing is to help Young China to keep faith in itself...