Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quinn has passed. In the decade or so of his incumbency he has became almost a tradition. But traditions have a ruthless way of disappearing amid the torch lights of the innovator, and the ex-Mayor, who tried so hard to hitch Harvard to his band-wagon, will be present only on the tire covers of a few autos until they also reach the discarded stage. Thus, as Cambridge becomes industrialized, does good fellowship give way to efficiency...
...York color, world-wide as well as local, has won the day over intelligence. It proves the truth of Professor Roger's advice to have two pair of pants, for on his haberdashery almost alone has Mayor Walker ridden to fame and fortune. In Boston haberdashery failed to assist a candidate for in the reign of mud that preceded the election few presses could endure. So Curley is in the saddle again. It may be hoped he will not break the camel's back...
...more students if it did not limit its numbers. The Graduate School, non-existent in 1879, now enrolls 900 graduates from all parts of the world. The Graduate School of Business Administration, a creation entirely new, has nearly 900. The Graduate School of Education, also quite new, has 300. Almost any one of the graduate departments would make a college about as large as Harvard College was in our day. The College is still the heart of the University, but it no longer dominates...
This tendency is a natural and inevitable one. Advanced graduate teaching and research have developed everywhere, from small beginnings to great achievements. The country needs these more and more as it grows to manhood. And graduate work almost of necessity turns to the great cities. The centers of research everywhere are the urban centers: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore,--New Haven too (let us give our dearest enemy his due; he has an intermediate position, by no means disadvantageous...
...stimulating site for professional teaching and scientific research. But a metropolis does not readily foster a college. Is the old Harvard to stay? Is Harvard to remain a place where boys will grow into youths and men under the influences and in the surroundings which mean so much--almost everything--to us? Or will the College decay as the professional departments grow? Will the only colleges of the old type that remain be those in the country towns--Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst...