Word: cans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There can be no doubt that the evils which a union between federations of laborers and teachers hopes to remedy are vital, yet the proposed cure would not be effective. The cause for which they stand is sufficient in itself, and does not need the backing of engineers and bricklayers...
In the past and particularly during the war, Phillips Brooks House has fulfilled one of the primary purposes for which it was founded--hospitality. Its doors are always open to members of the University and their guests; and hundreds of men in the military and naval service of their country...
On the face of such records, certain truths must be deduced. There must be something in the atmosphere created at Harvard which stimulates men's minds to do big things. Unconsciously, the idea scoffed at by many people, forces are at work continually around us which make for the production...
If then, we are to carry on the ideals of American democracy, this paternalistic movement throughout the country must be halted. We must aim, as we have been aiming, only with ever increasing vigor, to raise the average mental power of the people through better education-- in the broadest sense...
Paternalistic government is not yet an accomplished fact. Our aim should be to attack it at the roots before compulsion can attain a lasting foothold in the country.