Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This course on the various programs for social reconstruction limits itself to fairly modern times. No undergraduate alive, whether he was born a little Lib-e-ral or a little Conserve-a-tive, can afford to be ignorant of the social ferment which goes on in the world around him, and theatens to involve him as employer or employee, taxlevyer or taxpayer in our time. This course will not introduce him to the manifestations of these doctrines now current in Harbin or in Gastonia, but it will enable him to learn something of the ideas held by anarchists, social...
...individuals bear resemblance to queerly grouped and overstuffed animals in a museum, regarding their audience with dazed and overconfident ferocity. But if the characters are not alive, Author Bolitho's writing does live, very noisily indeed. A journalist, 39, he is a regular colyumist on the New York World, a resident of Southern France, the author also of Leviathan and Murder for Profit...
Russell maintains the theory that it is through scientific method only that man can arrive at a true knowledge of himself and the world...
...forced to assume should certainly not be carried beyond the freshman year. It stunts the development of self-reliance and self-discipline, both of which will be of equal importance with academic achievement when the student finds himself unshielded by his alma mater and at grips with the world for a living...
...Harvard dormitories disguised as "Inner college" that are hardly more than a dignification and moralistic extension of the Harvard tutorial system, are significant only as more paternalism and increased floor space. After all Harvard would have been rather silly in the eyes of the world to turn down Mr. Edward F. Harkness' preferred eleven millions-even though he tied up the gift with the requirement that it must be used for student-faculty "houses." Michigan Daily...