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But now and then some individual finds his vocabulary cramping and proceeds to inflate it. If he is a man of affairs, with little time to study the dictionary, he may resort to his own inspiration. Such pressure from within gave us "normalcy", a queer word which turns in on...
Prayer: Five hundred copies of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdiek's book, The Meaning of Prayer, were ordered by the head of a large corporation for his employees. They were presented with this message: " If you can get a grip on a faith like that it's going to...
Chesterton said: " It was the whole point of Whistler and his school that they produced the picture without troubling about the meaning. We may say it is the point of Picasso and the rest to paint the meaning without troubling about the picture."
These remarks all apply to the world; but their meaning to the college is evident. For the very purpose of a "liberal" education, university studies are arranged for breadth: yet not even general examinations prevent the student from shutting up his knowledge in separate notebooks on his shelf. One listens...
At this point the "true American spirit" is apt to be overwhelmed by the evidence that "the world"--be it this or the next--"is too much with us." He realizes that our greatest artists have almost always done a part of their student work in Europe, and that at...