Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Principal requirements for the ancient ceremony of launching a naval vessel are a bunting-draped platform, a bottle of champagne, an attractive female somehow connected with the ship and a crowd of several hundred to cheer as the craft slips into the water...
...congress of scholars at Harvard has been an inspiring event. We like to feel the renewed assurance that the ancient regard for knowledge is perpetuated in modern disciples, and we like to believe that we ourself are (as Professor Cartan so nobly phrased it) "passionately attached to the principle of free inquiry." This is the source of our own patriotism, for, with all its beguiling idiocies, America is still freely inquiring. (We get a questionnaire in every mail.) It is certain that in this country, more than in any other, the establishment of a court of wisdom would...
...already there are current among us movements hardly less ruinous, if they go unchecked, than those which on the continent have despoiled ancient universities of their most precious birth-right...
...more effectual against attacks from without than the utmost amount of privilege and protection." Attacks from without--the phrase has a modern ring. Events proved that the Commission of 1850 was correct in its statement, the changes which they advocated restored the confidence of the nation in its two ancient institutions. They could not foresee, however, the reluctance of certain sections of public opinion to welcome the restoration of the true university tradition. They did not realize how willingly the public often follows those who argue for a separation of teaching and research! No better illustration could be found than...
...munificent state. Yet Harvard has outlasted all the governments which existed when it was founded, and the social orders through which mankind has moved in three hundred years. It has had only the tradition of learning which its founders carried into the New World from the more ancient universities of Europe and the support of a community in New England which has been loyal to that tradition through all the vicisaitudes of many ages. Walter Lippmann in the New York Herald-Tribune...