Word: building
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feel less moved by the greater indignities practiced by American partners on each other. It is so much easier to hate the foreigner. But if we are to steer with open eyes toward the goal and not by blind feeling, we must calculate whether retaliation as such will build toward the goal of richer life or set us back...
...Government when necessity arises. The plan includes joining the laboratories, hospitals and professional departments of the university with the Government's machinery of military and naval preparedness. A field hospital will be equipped by the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the engineering department will build machinery for submarines and motor boats...
...Harvard accepted a trust of $22,000,000 under the will of Gordon Mackay for the purpose of building up a strong and efficient department of engineering education and research. Since that time the University has concluded its affiliations with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and with the intention of making the best possible use of the endowment, the President and Fellows of Harvard have petitioned the trustees of the bequest to transfer the funds to Technology. This is certainly contrary to the letter, and, according to the trustees, to the spirit of Mr. Mackay's will, for the latter...
...greatest players of his position in the country, and promises in the next year to place himself beside those men whose fame in football is not forgotten. Starting his career with the foundation that Captain Dadmun and this year's eleven have labored so hard to build, there can be no question but that the new leader will come through the season victoriously. Both Captain Wheeler and the University are to be congratulated on his election...
...wherein carpenters are taught to be better carpenters, farmers better farmers, blacksmiths better blacksmiths, tailors better tailors, fishermen better fishermen--if so be Harvard has entered upon a career of wider usefulness to those who really produce the bread and butter which all the people eat, and those who build the houses and the clothes and the tools which make civilization a vital thing, then hooray for Harvard. State Press is so strongly a believer in schools he believes in schooling those who support the country as well as those who ornament it. --Galveston Daily News...