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...doing the reading in the original, for in a course of this sort only the most important men would be read and for them there exist admirable translations; many of them possess intrinsic literary value of their own. Because of this and because of the broad general scope of the course it would prove worthwhile to men already well versed in the Classics; in fact, these men would derive the most benefit from...
...conception of "the world as history" is bound of prove disappointing both educationally and as a means of living. In scholarship its breadth of scope enforces uniformity and superficiality: not the obvious superficiality of the flashy generalization, but the superficiality of mere learning. Information rather than understanding tends to become the aim of the historical approach, for information alone can be coldly uniformly catalogued. Neither does the past contain the key to the future or the plan of the present, for, perversely, the more it is studied the less it shows. History when glimpsed hastily or through a mirage presents...
Although in part a concession to the dilettante, this widening of scope will now make possible a more spontaneous lecture program. No longer restricted to one topic, the Inquiry will be free to sponsor timely discussions on whatever subject may be foremost at the moment. Dogmatic purpose, as well as the tub thumping and inane resolutions of an excessively liberal minority, are steadily to be avoided. If the Inquiry, having found concentration too difficult, does indeed prove able to maintain the promised attitude of rational impartiality toward world affairs, its unbiased forum will serve a definite need in the University...
...immobile of them, has really covered the most ground. In this, her autobiography, she reverts to the limpid, nerveless style which served for the earliest of her books. Not since "Three Lives" has she been so willing to chain herself to the actual meaning of words, to limit her scope so soberly to the common associations which they bring. It was an axiom of the schools that with "The Making of Americans". Gertrude Stein had set out boldly and forever to the promised land where words have other more intimate values; yet in the short stories written...
...scope of activity along this plan is to be widened by sending the letter to more members of the faculty, and by inviting these men to present their views on subjects of interest to informal groups at Phillips Brooks House...