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Title: Smith Alumnae Quarterly
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Alumnae Association of Smith College
Subjects: News by/about College alumnae
Publisher: Alumnae Association of Smith College
Contributing Library: Smith College Libraries, College Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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£0e Jbntf 0 $fumnae Quatferfg Vol. XIII JULY, 1922 No. 4 Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Concord, New Hampshire, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE CULT OF THE PRIMITIVE Samuel McChord Crothers The Commencement Address delivered June 20 I wish to speak to you this morning of the attitude of educated persons in aperiod of reaction, and I use that word reaction in no invidious sense, becausewe are all reactionary in this period, and the only difference is whether we shallbe, through the period of necessary reaction, courageous, cheerful and ready tomake, when the time comes, a new advance. We talk of action and reaction.There are certain periods when the educated person feels that it is the time foraction, for a forward step, when he feels that the intelligence of mankind hasthe power to carry out a definite program of its own and that he knows whatthat program is. And there are other periods when something tremendoushappens. The intellect cannot at once take it i

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