Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign immigration and permits only a handful of Danes to reside in Greenland, half of them workers in the cryolite mines. This curious policy, which costs Denmark about $150,000 per year in Colonial outlay (Greenland could easily be "made to pay"), is based on a philanthropic concept: Greenland for the Eskimos...
...points out, "is a deliberate affront upon common sense", it needs some explaining if the common man is to partake of its fruits. Anyone with a retentive memory can speak gliby about Nietzsche's superman, but to receive the benefits of philosophic thought one must first be given some concept of the philosopher's approach to life. That is just what Professor Perry does...
...refusing to yield to other Senators. From his backrow seat he talked slowly, steadily about Oil, pausing now and then to catch his breath while fumbling through stacks of papers on his desk. He reviewed the entire industry ; at great length he tried to give his colleagues a concept of ten billion dollars; he talked about Indians; he drawled over long wordy contracts. Nobody listened...
...visit of the young men should give them a definite concept toward which their school work is tending. So far entrance examinations have not proved an adequate incentive to preparation which will place the prospective freshmen in a position to fit in directly with a higher system of learning. The best result which the conference could achieve would be to send the delegates back with a more mature outlook toward problems which they will be expected to face in the next four years...
...evident that the proposal is in line with the one constant ideal in the Harvard concept of education intellectual freedom for the individual. How the fellowships, if established, will work out in practice is another matter. University theory and practice are two different things and innovations are often more attractive on paper than in subsequent actuality. The great problem of the new proposal will be to imbue its spirit into the flesh of University administration. While grades, theses, and courses dominate the standards of University Hall, it will be exceedingly difficult to select the basic material for the fellowships...