Word: closer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Democracy is not the unmixed good which this letter might seem to account it. If democracy at Harvard would bring about a modicum of tolerance, tolerance of ideas of creed, social standing, intellectual ability, then democracy ought to be our aim. If it would bring about a closer relation of professor and student, a crying need at Harvard, it is true that the experiment of the Freshman Dormitories should be carried further. At all odds, a college less democratic than Harvard is hardly conceivable. JACOB DAVIS...
...must maintain our intimacy with the past. We must develop scholars who will bring us into closer understanding of the glories and blunders of other civilizations, who will convince our youths that the past is stored with object lessons of great value now. However, a few years of required Latin in school will not help us on the road. For all have future scholars they will only serve to waste the energy which might have been thrown into the direct study of Rome herself, of the splendor of her institutions, and the greatness of her sons. By all means...
...significance of its production is enlarged by the fact that the play was undertaken at the request of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, of which Professor W. H. Schofield has recently become the president. This foundation was established with a considerable endowment in 1911 for the purpose of cultivating closer relations, largely through educational and intellectual intercourse, between the Scandinavian countries and the United States. It has already accomplished much in producing a better mutual understanding between our own country and Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It is well that Harvard is taking an active part in this work which will bring...
...trust that our acquaintance with the horrors which so many brave young men are experiencing in Europe will be no closer than in the descriptions of men who have lived through them. We may know that should the necessities of existence impel us to a course we abhor but do not shun, neither the fearfulness nor the tragedy of war will keep one true man back...
...patriotism they feel, has ever been offered in time of peace than the organization and faithful drill of the Harvard Regiment surely testified. Where there was such will to be of service, surely it would have been a pity to deny full recognition. There will be a great deal closer sense of relationship to the Federal War Department among the men of the regiment under their new terms of enlistment, now that they are assured that commissions will be available to graduates in time of need. The technical restrictions usually imposed upon land-grant colleges in return for the position...