Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student some conception of the actual world within which he lives, such as can not be derived from the study of algebra or Latin. Their aim, namely, the general broad view over and the correlation of the various forces which have produced the contemporary state of mankind, is almost a commonplace in the academic life of such an institution as is Harvard where not only many courses as for example, Biology A, but ultimately the tutorial system itself are designed to weld together isolated facts into a coordinated whole...
...yard relay race yesterday, which was eventually to prove the deciding event, opened slowly, but speeded up with each successive man. Standish and Smith raced almost even for six lengths, but the former's spurt at the end captured the contest by a couple of feet...
...case of men whose abilities are so little specialized it would make but little difference in the long run into what field of business they entered. The history of many of the greatest figures in modern American industry shows that the field of their successes was chosen almost entirely by chance. Granted a modicum of brains and energy to start with, the indecision displayed by college students as to their intentions may be due to the simple fact that there is no one field in which alone they could look for success...
...great industry, and the employment of thousands of natives who have had hitherto little or no contact with civilization. The inevitable result of such an enterprise will be the development of the economic resources of the country and a profound modification in the primitive culture of its savage population. Almost invariably, industrialization of a country inhabited by primitive people has resulted in the destruction of their native culture and not infrequently of the native population itself, which is not immunized against white man's diseases and white man's civilization...
...view that Liberia is "the white man's grave" is, in Mr. Schwab's opinion, wholly erroneous. He says, "During our seven months constant travelling in Liberia, with almost daily change of water, living largely off the country, under constant exposure to whatever 'dangers' to health there might be, we did not have a single day's illness." However, because of the complete ignorance of the natives of hygiene, and the fact that there are only three physicians in the whole hinterland, the population is likely to decrease rather than to increase. Mr. Schwab thinks that the country may once...