Word: instinctive
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Most organizations at Harvard eventually become clubs of some sort or other. The gregarious instinct does not bow completely to indifference. And a collection of people interested in a critical appreciation of the theatre becomes a Theatre Goers' Club and loses itself in refreshments and parliamentary law. So the Debating Union is not singular in becoming extinct as a factor in University affairs while it strives to furnish the college litterateurs with a raison de parler...
...widespread desire for a deeper life of the spirit," "the instinct for interior discipline," the privileges of faith will be safe-guarded," "a spiritual inventory", such are the phrases which the Catholic Commonweal uses in praising the week-end retreat idea, in advocating its extension...
Thus the instructor's instinct bidding him to "cover the ground" at all cost, and his own epigrammatic judgment, amount to disregarding his printed colleagues. A student hardly learns to know their faces or to choose among their viewpoints. The executive method of reading assignment devitalizes authoritative printed knowledge and bars the seeker from access to pre-professorial wisdom. It is a method which is fortunately yielding somewhat to the optional reading list. In time attractive lectures on sources may signify that the teacher is only a guide...
Undoubtedly the instinct of ages past animated the men and women who quietly listened to the sickening snick which marked the end of a black man's life. Such incidents make understand able the sang-froid of the French women of the Parisian terror who knitted without dropping a stitch while the guillotine cut off royalist heads...
...there is anything that guides a vagabond, and this hypothesis may easily be challenged, it is his instinct. If he allowed his conscious self to act as rudder, he would no longer be a vagabond, and as a self-respecting member of the clan myself, I feel that that would be a catastrophe. All of which suggests one reason why I am going to Emerson J at 9 o'clock this morning to hear Dr. Prescott talk in Education B on instincts...