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...Dyke is correct in his assertion that there is too little thought in the American college of today, but the blame for that deficiency should be placed squarely on the shoulders of the undergraduate himself. There is time for thought, plenty of it, but the student dawdles and fritters away the precious hours in idleness, or pumps his head full of extra-curriculum affairs. Even Harvard, self-styled college of the thinker, is an intellectual trifler...
...have the vision, the correct idea, the working knowledge of what it's all about. Keep...
...belongs to some socially prominent Boston, New York, or possibly Chicago family, and who continues to be damnably social for four years. And there is the high-school graduate who majors in Latin and spends most of his time in a quiet nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society of the last century that "sneezed whenever England took cold," although nowadays it is difficult to distinguish between the imitation and the real. The studious element speaks Americanese, is not ashamed of its local accent, and goes serious and unobtrusively about...
Philologically, Mr. Schaye is correct, but the common translation given to the word Reich is Empire, and its current meaning is Empire to most Germans...
This is not quite correct. In the German language, Reich means Realm, State. Only by attaching another word, it gets a specialized meaning...