Word: flux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past few years has arisen the notion that something is wrong with the colleges. From the volume of literature that this notion has produced one might infer that everything was wrong with the colleges. There is apparently no reason for this sudden flux of collegiate concern, just as it is certain that there is no rhyme to it. Perhaps it has come because never before have the American institutions of professed higher learning been so popular. Perhaps popularity and excellence run by contraries...
...Wabash, however, has vast importance in the present flux of railroad mergers. And the inclusion of a potent newspaper owner...
...made him less certain. He foresaw that "longing" was not the cause of one species merging into another. But he saw the merging, came to be assured that the world's fauna were not divided into rigorous tribes but were, rather, in a continuous and universal state of flux; he began to look for the real reasons behind this perpetual revolution...
...first report of the Committee on Relations with the Alumni shows that a consistent effort has been made to keep the forty-thousand odd graduates of the University not only aware but well informed of the flux of life in and about the Yard. Undergraduates as a rule have no conception of the vast bulk of public opinion which lies in the hands of the alumni; what happens in Cambridge today may result in headlines in the daily press tomorrow, but the most far-reaching consequences will always depend in large measure on the graduates spread over the world...
...limited but unimpassive consciousness. He has maintained a changing balance of domination in the wills of his characters, and the movement of successive mutations of superiority and inferiority mark the progressions in the plot. Mr. Muir's psychology, symbolism, and philosophy are inextricably dove-tailed, while the constant flux of affirmation and negation in the mind of Hans may be capable of many interpretations. There is his constant desire for the confirmation of reality: "He doubted his eyes, and had to feel things with his hands to know them." There is his constant desire for the unattainable tranquility that intellectual...