Word: copings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Singularly fitting today are the words uttered by Macaulay when he urged "Reform in order that you may preserve." In the past year we have witnessed repeated examples of the inability of the machinery at Washington to cope with pressing situations. It is not that we have had ignorant or incapable officials in positions of responsibility, but that the means open to those officials are inadequate for the efficient execution of government work. The various departments have expanded to such an extent that the duties of one, overlapping, often interfere with the work of another; and those duties themselves have...
...need is still greater of a man who has the breadth of view necessary to cope adequately with the great problems both at home and abroad which now confront the nation. Mr. Hoover has clearly shown that he has this breadth of view, and I cannot see that one of the other possible presidential candidates has shown it. While other candidates have taken refuge in platitudes, he has announced in no uncertain terms the policies to which he adheres. They speak the language of the era of McKinley; his mind is concerned with the problems of today...
That Herbert Clark Hoover would be able successfully to cope with the problems of the nation in the future, as he has done in the past, is the belief of Arthur N. Holcombe, '06, Assistant Professor of Government as expressed in the following article written for the CRIMSON...
Moreover, as President Lowell points out, it is the college man who must cope with the problems of the future, and the college training teaches him to expect and to meet new situations. He is, moreover, better prepared for leadership than those who have not gone to college. This was clearly brought out by the ability of college men to adapt themselves to the duties of officers in the war. And, finally, a general education makes a man more stimulating and helpful in his friendship and better able to give advice in the light of a true perspective...
...political system is to cope with the new problems presented as a result of the war and the industrial growth of the country, it must have more men of distinction and intellectual training. And where are such men to be recruited if not in the colleges of the country...