Word: thought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thought is neither more nor less than a call to take a sensible middle course. Spiritual development of personality must depend on material opportunities; and therefore we should recognize, as a sine qua non for a progressive human being, a frank striving for money--and the time and things it can buy. And the goal of the terrestrial experiment seems to be the progress of the group as a group, even if for no other purpose than to shelter the specimens; and therefore the aim of life outside the ego should be, not service or sacrifice or any such personal...
Professor Abbott has contributed much during the past two years in the way of making Yale thought articulate; and upon nothing is he more to be congratulated than his definition of the attitude which Yale takes in regard to wartime athletics, a propos of the Severn regatta. To quote in part...
This was, I thought, a perfectly innocent subject for an interview, and not impossibly a useful one. But it was lost. And my remarks were gratuitously distorted into an unfounded and idiotic attack on Harvard University. This was done at some stage or other of the preparation, as a reading of the "Illustrated's" article makes evident, merely in the interests of journalistic sensation. And when the injustice of the article as printed was pointed out to the Board of the "Illustrated," these gentlemen with the readiest good-will and in the most honourable fashion did all that was possible...
...only too true. That men must from now on turn their energies to the institutions of the future is equally certain. The need may be well met by the introduction of small discussion groups, led by men not only competent in their field, but able to arouse active thought in the minds of the indifferent. Such a plan will serve to find the true position of the undergraduate in college today. Tonight each man is before the bar of a searching into his sincerity. Let no one fall to justify the continuance of our University...
...races of people have been thrown, and out of which will emerge our tomorrow. At such a time we can brook no provincialism. Men must known that if they are to taken their due share in this process of remolding modern society, they must begin now to prepare through thought that upon which they are later to act. These problems are not dreams. They are real in the reality of a Russian revolution. They are as inevitable as life itself. The call upon college men for real thought and active interest in the world's affairs has never been greater...