Word: asking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...when a person realizes that it comes from one in Mr. Wheelwright's position. It was not only extremely poor taste but grossly presumptive. To think that an undergraduate should take it upon himself to demand further personal sacrifice from his instructors is really preposterous. I would like to ask Mr. Wheelwright how many of his instructors have been made unfit for his friendship by their wealth. I would like to ask him further how much personal sacrifice he has made to be in the "sympathetic company and congenial surroundings" of Harvard. As far as we know the only sacrifice...
...chance to be human, and the undergraduate may find professors worthy of his friendship. Then when we have more money, we might equip our poverty stricken chairs with laboratories, theatres, libraries and all the other what-nois. Then, they tell us, their present progress would seem like marking time. Ask our men which they would rather have: endowments or high salaries. Get rid of the money-grubbers. Although we would then, by no means, be free from all the quacks that infest Cambridge, still in the company of those who would remain are found men in whom alone Harvard...
...further bridging of the narrow gulf that separates us from commercial institutions. Scholars are not out for money, they want to work in sympathetic company, amid congenial surroundings. They run no race with bankers, corporation lawyers, or fashionable practitioners. They are directed toward a different goal. They ask for bread, not for stones...
...letter of President Lowell follows: "It is of the utmost importance that the committee's report at the conference in Paris for a League of Nations should receive the fullest public discussion. I therefore write to ask if you will meet me in a public joint debate on the question whether or not the substance or the provisions of this covenant should be ratified by the United States. This letter is, of course, public...
...teachers of a very high grade of intelligence and education. But conditions have changed. The teaching profession has become one of the most desperately underpaid occupations in the community. Last year in Massachusetts there were 1800 teachers who received not over $550 in wages. It is proposed to ask the Legislature to force a minimum wage of $750 for teachers in the state. But that is absolutely inadequate if the teaching profession is to attract the type of people who are competent to be the guides during their most impressionable years of the future Americans. The startling number of young...