Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never expected the honor. A year and a half ago when he retired from the bench he declared that he was too old to aspire to leadership of so great a cause, but that he hoped to be of service. Leadership comes to those who serve. He began his career as a corporation lawyer in Ohio. In 1914 he was made a Federal Judge in that State. One of his innovations while holding that post was a method of Americanizing aliens. When he granted citizenship he held a reception, with music, speeches, refreshments. He made the newly-fledged, exalted citizens...
...classmen are submitted to the boredom of the perfunctory process of raising the necessary sixty per cent, or the Seniors are worked up to a nervous pitch in the effort to pay just and final honors to this or that candidate who has shown his worth throughout his college career. Indifference and over-emphasis are unhappy extremes, but luckily traditional indifference in the lower class elections can do no serious damage. If classes want to spend several days drumming up enough votes to elect nominal officers no real harm can come about as no one cares much anyway...
...representative citizens of all walks of life as well as by Harvard men from all sections of our country. In short, it is to be a national affair as well as an academic affair; and that is as it should be, for it is impossible to regard a career like that of Dr. Eliot as other than a notable and successful public career, irrespective of the technically private character of the great academic office which he held at Harvard for forty fruitful years...
...atmosphere of an American college is healthy, social, even cultural, but it is a life apart a blissful four years to spend and look back on, not to use. It lacks that element which in England makes the university merely the first stage in a public career. On the other hand, there is little interest among the young men themselves. The common procedure is for the budding youth to dabble in studies and extra curriculum activities at college, pausing on occasion at the beck of a compelling headline to reflect on "those politicians". Sometimes he will brace himself to hurl...
Such was the creed that made of Woodrow Wilson's public career a consistent whole. Such is the test which he would have had us apply to the success or failure of that career...