Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel sure that neither Michelangelo nor Mozart, neither Newton nor Hume nor Gauss nor Einstein gave a conscious thought to social consequences while they were engaged in their labors...
...suggest to my more socially conscious American students that intellectual curiosity was not necessarily a form of sin or even frivolity and that a possible valid reason for pursuing this or that branch of knowledge was merely that they were interested in it.... I could see that I was thought to be expounding what is vaguely thought of as the 'European' point of view-at best something exotic and over-refined, at worst cynical and slightly sinister...
...battles became so violent that the University had to abandon the idea of a common table. In 1926 Dean C. N. Greenough said he would welcome suggestions on how to solve the "food problem." Last year Dean Bender asked the Student Council to conduct a poll on what students thought of the food. Throughout this 300 year history of food problems many changes in the dining system occurred, always whenever protests became widespread and proved to be well founded...
...local officer of the Collegiate Montaigne Society, an organization which terms itself "devoted to the quiet promulgation of the skeptical thought of the Great French essayist," tossed a debate challenge last night on the doctrines of Father Leonard Feeney of St. Benedict's Center...
...most thoughtful present I ever got" said one Harvard grad "was some sonnets a Wellesley girl wrote me and illuminated on parchment." This statement is another version of the old line that the thought behind the gift is most important; that this form of reasoning still prevails is evidenced by local sales of soup tourines, rare prints, and several copies of the US camera annual...