Word: specious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...body to blaze the trail. Those in the van of any new movement must withstand constant attacks from groups of individuals who are compelled to join the camp of the opposition because of their inherent desire to appear individual, obstinate or wise on account of their aloofness. But no specious arguments nor altruistic dreams should blind one man to the duty that rests on each...
...better. . . .Nothing is lost. . . The true death would be to live in a conquered country--for me above all others, as then my art could not exist." The notion that a man of genius is too precious to fight is, to some minds, attractive and convincing. But it is specious. It has its origin in the school of pessimism--the Schopenhauerian pessimism which fears contact with the realities of life. It springs from that same suicidal philosophy which leads men to avoid marriage and women to shirk motherhood. The artist who sacrificed himself belongs to a nobler--and commoner--humanity...
...persons who hold this view hold it in all seriousness and candor. It therefore seems to me eminently worth while to discuss it with equal seriousness and candor, to examine the foundations on which it rests, to sift what is true and authentic in it from what is specious and sophisticated, and thus to find out what the real relation is between contemporary Germany and the Germany of a hundred years ago; to determine, in brief, to what extent the contemporary German type has preserved and embodies what by the opponents of Imperial Germany is called the true German type...
...will your boy make of it? There are shrines of all kinds in college before which he may bow. Best, I think, is the one that's built to him of the straight clean back and limb, who bends to no social set, whose vision is unlimmed b y specious show but who 'plays the game' and that's the shrine that shall last...
...this worthy investigator forsakes all systems of espionage and asks the members of the Senior classes of several prominent institutions for their opinions on the value of college training. Of course the main difficulty with this mode of procedure is that the information is sure to be of a specious nature. Just now the members of the graduating classes are at the most enthusiastic phase of their collegiate life. The term of academic work is drawing to a close, and all are bouyant with hopes for the future. Thus all are sure to view their college careers in retrospect with...