Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reaction," said Professor Bliss Perry in his address before the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre yesterday noon, "I venture to select a few ideals for society which have been proclaimed by poetry. Let us ask ourselves whether these ideals still persist and whether the poets think that there is any measurable progress towards their attainment...
...fact is more important than you may think. There can be snobbery without kings. Witness the United States, which produces the article on a lavish scale, as the society columns of nearly all our daily organs of democratic opinion so eloquently testify. But there cannot be a king without snobbery. Not even the meagerest German princeling, fourth in line of succession to a reline for which no average Iowa farmer would trade his fat acres without boot, could exist a day without it. Taken out of the atmosphere of snobbery, like a fish out of water, he would simply give...
...University has seen that ideas are not the result of any special curriculum, but of a system which encourages the student to think. Two factors are preeminent to the success of such a system. First, many instructors who stimulate thought; second, an opportunity for instructors to meet the undergraduates for discussion and an emphasis on a general grasp of the subject rather than a knowledge of details. The second factor the University has already grasped and acted upon; it remains to develop the first. This will take time. In the meanwhile it is deeply satisfactory to know that Harvard...
...very glad to hear that your class is contemplating the creation of a gate to the College Yard in memory of the men of your class who fell in the war. Bit by bit the Yard is being beautified but much remains to be done, and I can think of no more fitting nor permanent memorial, of a modest but apt sort than the addition of a monumental portal to the Yard fence, now so nearly complete. Of course we all hope that the alumni will create some single splendid memorial to the memory of all Harvard dead...
...also glad that the "Legion" is to be non-partisan. Without the least bit of partisanship, but with purely American principles, we can find plenty to think about and plenty to do. It is our duty to lend our support and our influence to purely American ideals. I do not mean that I think America's fighting men to be reactionary in their policies. They are not. But I do believe they are the sort that will oppose certain agitators who uphold doctrines which in other countries resulted in revolution,--doctrines which oppose the system of government under which...