Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Masaryk. Obviously Slovakia must have seceded from Czecho, and of course the secessionists had chosen another professor as their President. The capitol of the new state appeared to be Trencsen, and why not? The whole thing seemed so natural to the statesmen of drowsy Bangkok that they thought it superfluous to drop a cable query Europeward...
Recovering his startled wits, the Mayor of Trencsen drafted with much thought a letter to Bangkok. About a year ago, he explained, some Slovaks held a mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition?from Siam...
...college. Fortunately, it will do none of these things, for the simple reason that the college man is, or should be, busy enough and sane enough to have no time for such speculations. If he reflects upon his own attitude toward his work, he passes it off with the thought that his attitude at the end of college is going to be more important to him than his undergraduate attitude. And he would be wise to spend his time in doing things to develop the former rather than waste it in analyzing the latter. One has only to picture...
...Harvard Teachers' Association was organized in 1890 "to promote the interchange of thought on educational questions" among teachers and school officers with Harvard connections. In the eight conferences this week a wide variety of such subjects have been treated, ranging from the instruction of English to training in music. Especial emphasis has been laid on such problems as those of character, the grouping of children according to ability, and vocational and educational guidance...
WHEN Professor G. F. Moore writes a foreword to a book, Harvard men must approach the volume with respect. And when he finds "its point of view original and the presentation not only instructive but simulative of thought," most Harvard men will find the book interesting. To erudite readers who search their pages for inaccuracies Professor Moore sounds a warning that "in a work of such wide scope the critical reader will often discover in particulars of fact or of interpretation occasion for doubt or dissent." Bertrand Russell in his review of the book in the New York Nation...