Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...short time ago of a so-called intercollegiate magazine, "Challenge," re-opens the discussion concerning the advisability of radicalism among students. Mr. Arthur Brisbane, of the New York Evening Journal, in commenting recently upon an editorial printed in the columns of the CRIMSON, corroborated the assertion that "real intellectual turmoil is necessary if the owner of the intellect is to amount to anything." In addition he suggests that radicalism and thought are identical. By that, he has reference to that kind of thought which leads to an ultimate improvement in existing conditions, which makes haste slowly, and reaches a logical...
That is why a greater leaven of radicalism in college teaching is desirable. The question whether a certain group of ideas be inculcated or not is of slight importance compared to the need of arousing real intellectual turmoil. A great many staid conservative students wander unsuspectingly into Economics A, and are startled to learn that protectionism is not a doctrine of certified divine origin. It worries them for a time to find that the universe of thought is not entirely plotted into straight, narrow, and exclusive paths; then they weather the crisis and return smugly to the old beliefs...
...colleges of this country in this field of endeavor, the Harvard Medical School of China is the most significant. Founded in Shanghai, China, precisely at the moment of the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, at a time when the whole Chinese Empire was in a state of turmoil and strife, the School has grown steadily until it now occupies an excellent group of buildings supplied free of rent by the Chinese Red Cross Society. The unsettled condition of the country at the time of the founding proved to be a decided advantage instead of a hindrance as, along with...
...race and religion, of prejudice and sacrifice, of hate that would blight and love that can and will save and atone. This drama, the noblest and most intensely provocative of hard thinking that Boston has seen for many days, is called "As a Man Thinks". Into an apparently hopeless turmoil of sin and mental suffering which comes from the faithlessness of a husband and his suspicion of the faithlessness of his wife, into that very world which the modern "problem play" has bared so relentlessly, comes the calm, certain figure of a Jewish doctor, invincible because he possesses what those...
...rapid march of events so characteristic of the American college community it is remarkably easy for the great majority of students to lose track of the larger tendencies of a given period. To determine the proper perspective of concurrent incidents is practically impossible in the turmoil of present affairs. And for this reason the real importance of less evident facts is often unappreciated. Such a situation the CRIMSON believes exists in connection with the administration which has governed the University since the election of President Lowell in 1909. In short, many of us appreciate neither the number nor the importance...