Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small a thing a man is, yet how great...
...True, no one knows exactly why the government ought to be overthrown. It hasn't passed a prohibition law, or denied that all men are born free and equal, or declared for municipal ownership of laundries. But why be pedantic about such matters? It's the principle of the thing that counts--principle and force of habit. In June every Chinaman just naturally marches on Pekin...
...rule when indignant to write a letter as strongly as he felt, then address if to himself and drop it into the mail. On receiving if the next morning he had an impression of the way it would affect the person for whom it was intended not a bad thing to do, if not literally at least in imagination, as a means of putting oneself in another's place...
...many purposes is of paramount importance. The difficulty of finding any satisfactory formula for the value of a college education is due to the latter rather than to the former of these doubts. One does not need in these days to argue that it is a good thing to go to college. The average American youth and his average parents have come to feel that college is an indispensable part of the preparation for life, or that the burden of proof rests upon him who would argue against it rather than upon him who would argue for it. But just...
What is the answer? What can be learned from this bewildering variety of testimony for the guidance of educational policy? One thing seems to stand out clearly. The period of college life is the period in which the plasticity of youth and the maturity of manhood overlap. All influences received during this period are likely to be profound and lasting. Since his college life is almost his only life during these years, and since a student attends college not only with his mind, but with his body and his soul as well, the college touches him at every point...