Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unofficial view of the University was much the same. While some officers toyed with novel ideas which had University Hall as City Hall and the President as mayor, in no authoritative sources was the enactment of the necessary legislation given serious thought. Members of the faculty felt the plan was an attempt to cover Plan E and divert public attention. If the Council is representative, Cambridge obviously objects to being dictated to by Harvard professors, and it was felt that the less the professors say, the more chance Plan E has of passage. "The less we answer it, the more...
...feeling of helplessness before the unintelligible. Every problem is new to the mind which first meets it and it is baffling until he can recognize in it something which he has met and dealt with already. The all important difference between the mind which can clear itself by thought and the mind which remains bewildered and can proceed only by burying the difficulty in a formula-retained, at best, by mere rote memory-is in this power to recognize the new problem as, in part, an old conquest." Intelligence in its highest form, he adds, is ability to ferret...
Last fortnight prepscholars scuffing the first fallen elm leaves around Andover, Mass, held an enviable artistic privilege- or so thought William Germain Dooley, art critic of the immortal Boston Evening Transcript. Just opened at Andover's starchy, Georgian, richly-endowed Addison Gallery of American Art was the first comprehensive exhibition in New England of paintings by the late Maurice Prendergast and his brother, Charles, now 70. The Prendergasts were Boston boys whom Boston never bothered to honor. But since Impressionist Maurice has been dead for 14 years with an international reputation, home-town honors seemed at least timely...
...cried in her presence. Sarah had not known that men knew how to cry. She learned other things faster-economics by going hungry, the ways of boys from confidences of schoolmates. Before her father's death she learned her biggest lesson: "When you were a little child you thought your parents could do anything and knew everything. It was when you were growing up that you began to see them as people like other people, more kind, more tender, but not more wise, not always more capable. And because you saw them thus, curiously enough you became more fond...
...hammer home this thought, two impassioned English oldsters-Powys is 66, Ford 65-give their best to prove to common readers that the classics are good reading. Both are concerned with the literary rather than the biographical aspect of their subjects, both agree on their main admirations: Homer, Shakespeare, the Bible, the Greek tragedies, Dostoyevsky; neither has much use for the scientific and political spirit of contemporary letters...