Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this plan. But if we do not believe in fatalism imposed on mankind as a whole, we are, nevertheless, in very serious danger of falling into a belief on another kind,--the fatalism which is called the fatalism of the multitude. We are a little too much inclined to think that the individual is carried along by the spirit of his age, and that he has all he can do to go along with that spirit...
...need you more than we ever needed those before. What we need is not a larger number of itinerant vendors of patent remedies. What we need is men who will make a scientific diagnosis of the disease from which the public suffers. We want to have men who will think out the questions which we shall encounter,--who will think them out scientifically and earnestly,--who will face them fearlessly, because, remember this, the men who have rarely stood in the forefront of the advance of civilization have not usually found themselves shouting with the largest crowd. We require, above...
...thousands of people who will want to use it on special occasions in the fall, but to prevent any unnecessary delay in opening the bridge when it is finished. The wisdom of such action cannot be doubted for a moment; there may be some question of funds, though we think that two or three months interest is not too much to pay to avoid the inconvenience which will result if the pavement is not renewed at this time...
...Lincoln MacVeagh's thoughtful discussion of M. Bergson and the American Character. He urges in a very forcible way the view that Bergson's philosophy is not the best food for Americans of today. Bergson is a mystic, and America needs dogmatism. Americans "need to be taught how to think, and not, as M. Bergson would teach them, how to feel." "The intellectual, moral, and social progress which the American civilization is bound to make its own, as a crown to the material progress it has achieved, must be won of thought...
...admittedly, "Salm Harvard". When a man who has been in the newspaper game will say to college newspaper men, as was said at their, gathering in New York this spring. "If you go into newspaper work, never say you are a college man, particularly a Harvard man," then, we think, that it is time for us to help in the movement toward clean and same journalism. The Press Club was organized with this aim in view, but, not receiving the official support essential to its active existence, has gone to sleep for the summer, hoping that next fall will...