Word: brains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...better average man than now exists. Especially is this true in the problem of Americanization now before the country. There are infidels and fanatics in the land, and one is as undesirable and dangerous as the other. What is called Bolshevism is the product of too much brain education at the expense of the heart. Bolshevists imagine they are promoting a doctrine whose source is the heart and the conscience, whereas it is created out of a false kind of education--an education of the head "beyond its capacity...
...Universities have decided that the Latin phrase-book is too hard for the American brain. It is difficult and unnecessary. The real reason that our Universities are throwing over Latin is that Latin has been badly taught, and it is easier to throw Latin over than to bring in good teaching. But what a calamitous state for the learned...
...always, seed produces after its kind. Lying propagandists have gone about insinuating a great falsehood--intimating that some men at the Paris conference were holy and others unholy. Clemenceau is a victim of a foul and treacherous innuendo. It is not strange a cracked brain was fired with impulse to crime...
...average undergraduate can temporarily absorb and entire term's work in three hours and, entrenched in this manner, successfully thwart the parries of the most despotic "prof." With the examination past history hew can then seek new learning in another field, entirely unhampered by a brain loaded with other ideas. And thus the four years pass most enjoyably. --Daily Princetonian...
...combination of these factors that we must see that socialism has passed beyond the realm of theory and has become a movement. Though there are many who believe it a step backward, there are no men, however, who can afford to disregard it as the creation of rattle-brain theorists. There are great changes in the air which will mean a new society. They may be socialistic and they may be evolutions which will stop far short of that goal. But they are changes which must enlist the active thought of every man who will aid in creating the organization...