Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government should acquire the ownership of all British coal deposits, at an estimated cost of 100 million pounds (1/2 billion dollars), and then lease these deposits to private operating concerns...
...Cost of Leadership Is High...
...cost of leadership today is high; and if Harvard is to lead, it must have the means to command the kind of men that have enabled it to lead in the past, and to continue a tradition of great teaching...
...Mark Hopkin's proverbial log supplied the desk and chairs; it was the intellect involved that made the college. The efforts that are now being made to improve the methods of instruction in Harvard University, and to stimulate intellectual ambition in a large proportion of the undergraduates, are very costly, but the object is well worth the cost. When we ask how this is to be met, there is but one answer: unrestricted funds...
...problem of underpayment and with a new moral deficit each year which is met only by the self-sacrifice and denial of the underpaid teacher. Harvard's staff of younger teachers is its great reserve. It must have at all times only the best men, regardless of the cost. The greatest emphasis must be placed on the quality of teaching and research. If this is clearly recognized, and the means are provided, Harvard's place is secure...