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...professional attitudes, and learned new interpretations which threw experience and information into new terms and new lights. The average undergraduate tends to meet studies like philosophy, psychology, economics, general history, with a frankly puzzled wonder. A whole new world seems to dawn upon him, in its setting and vocabulary alien to anything in his previous life. Every teacher knows this baffling resistance of the undergraduate mind...
...college with an unconscious philosophy so tenacious that the four years of the college in its present technique can do little to disintegrate it. The cultural background of the well-to-do American home with its 'nice' people its amiable religiosity and vague moral optimism, is far more alien to the stern secular realism of modern university teaching that most people are willing to admit. The college world would find itself less frustrated by the undergraduate's secret hostility if it would more frankly recognize what a challenge its won attitudes are to our homely American ways of thinking...
...back drop new in the club's repertoire. The lines of this human little piece are not always successful, the lingo of the streets is dragged in, but under it all the people seem to be longing with a wild, fierce longing for Hill's "Rhetoric." To act this alien picture is difficult: Miss Adams and Mr. Whittemore were notably successful, and Mr. Hodges occasionally so. Young Kramer as the newsboy spoke his lines as determinedly as though Mr. Edison had invented him. "Kid" was well worth doing, even if its hero was overly "unshy," and its lines occasionally "literary...
There are certain events in track which, all things being equal, should certainly be won by Harvard, and--while we concede Yale nothing, there are some which will probably not fall to us. A third class, however, remains unclaimed even on paper by Harvard or alien backers, and which are free to the taker as it were. The broad jump is one of this class; the sprints are others. From their pages on the entry books all the men who placed in these last year have graduated, and their shoes are yet to be filled. If we can train...
...Christian declares that God, although the ultimate reality, is so far personal that he can enter into relations with man. The supernatural nature of the events which led to the founding of the Christian Church, the idea of the cross, and of the immortality of the soul, are quite alien to that closed circle contemplated by the materialist philosopher and the more ornamental theory of pantheistic monism. Christianity is opposed to the notion that the whole course of things appears in inevitable sequence. While it does not assert man's entire independence, it does make him responsible for his actions...