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...means, the laws by which he may use the tools; it can teach him methods of thinking, laws of reason, processes of gathering and analyzing and arranging, and giving solution to the facts of his future problems; his visions it can stimulate. Experience teaches men the rule of thumb, but culture should teach men the generalizations and truths of mind. A smattering of Biology is useless; knowledge of the scientific method is invaluable. And so with the other departments:--methods are the things which all men naturally desire to know. They are what men live by. Give me a universal...
...study European men of letters; thumb their works; admire the artistic legacies of foreign painters and sculptors; trace the campaigns of their foremost military leaders; find our modern life more closely intertwined with that of England, France, and Italy than ever before: yet that last needed touch is denied many of us--that of seeing the contrasting environments in which these men lived and evolved their works...
Heliotropic Washington bends toward Senator Harding, and the staid Senate is fluttered. Never before has a President been selected from its membership, and its experts on procedure thumb in vain the records to get instruction as to the proper sort of reception...
...their sympathetic teacher, are telling evidences of the hold Professor Atwood exercised over his pupils. In the undergraduate's eyes, his departure leaves a serious gap in his department; and many students who, in selecting their courses of study, seek "the man rather than the course," will no longer thumb carefully the pages on which courses in Physical Geography are described in the Elective Pamphlet...
...perhaps find it hard to summon mentally and definite, unmistakable plot which we can thumb. The play is too rapid a frolic for that. And its plot is a bewildering melange of characters and incidents, as episodic carnival rather than a blunt sequence of cause and effect. We encounter no sex problems, no ouija jigglings; Moraleda is Medford, Mass.; or Spoon River before it became a cemetery...