Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nearly every day come reports of strikes, or threats of strikes, from rail-roads, mines, and munition factories, menacing a suspension of those great activities which would spell ruin to the country. The problem thus created is unusually complex; with the rates of transportation or coal production lowered and limited, an increase of wages and a shorter working day in many cases cannot be given. On the other hand, any walk out of the strikers would tie up our whole industrial organization, and make difficult or well-nigh impossible the exportations to our allies at the present hour...
Such spontaneous and universal comprehension of a national need is praise-worthy. But unfortunately modern armies are not composed of simple elements. They are vastly complex, and the abilities which go to make them must be vastly complex. We need officers of the battle-line; we need cultivation of our productive soil. But we need in addition, engineers and artillery men, manufacturers, business men, doctors. If we turn all our technical school men into infantry officers, we shall have no bridges to cross, for none will be built. If we turn all our medical students into farmers, the armies...
...period of the Old Empire was cleared. Besides a number of stelae, the most interesting discovery was a vauit built of interlocking bricks; this is a unique example of such construction at so early a date. At Memphis the expedition is still engaged in uncovering a great complex of buildings dating from the reign of Merenptah (ca. 1225-1215 B. C.), the son of Rameses the Great. Thus far nearly the whole of a large festival temple, or palace, has been cleared and richly inlaid walls found...
...based really on narrowness of judgment. In no place where men have learned to differentiate between man and man and the most primitive tribes have learned that sort of selection--are all beings equally regarded and equally admired by their fellows. In any social scheme where relations become more complex there is liable to be error of judgment. Men place stress on external appearances, they judge others by their possessions, or some fancied distinctiveness of birth. At Harvard, as at other places frequented by civilized man, those external appearances are apt to mislead the calmest judgment, and give false value...
...This means, first of all, that he must have some human sense, some insight into his fellow-men and some grasp on all those processes whereby our complex society is carried on. He must know history, politics, economics. He must be sensitive to civic and economic wrong. He must feel the drive of our common life forward toward better institutions and relations...