Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Most reform movements are started by groups of a few men. There is a great danger in this fact, though it is one not easy to perceive. When the standard, the ideal, is set by a group, it is certain to be lower than when upheld by an individual, and the public, seeing a spirit of compromise in the new organization, at once loses all faith in it. Here we have the secret of the failure of many such enterprises, and it is hard to blame any one for it. Indeed, the claim is made that a practical politician, though...
...liberated state makes of his freedom is to give up some part of it for the common good. But the poor man knows he has less liberty than the rich man; till a man is independent he is not free. The man who is in want or in danger of want is not a free man, and the country which does not guard him against this danger is not a free country. How to secure every man in the means of livelihood is then the great problem to be solved...
...school; in the second case the kindergarten creeps up; in the one case the liberal education of the school is replaced by professional education; in the other case the liberal education is replaced by liberal play. If one of the two tendencies were working alone, its imminent danger would be felt at once, but as they seem to cooperate, the one from the bottom, the other from the top, each hides for the moment the defects of the other...
...range of election open to candidates for admission and at the same time "impaired the best reliance of the Faculty for preventing the total amount of work required of any individual from being raised." The Faculty seems to be well pleased with its labors and in no immediate danger of being confronted with the perplexing problem which it has just disposed...
...absolutely independent. It is not money alone which stimulates men in scholarly pursuits, all of which is very commendable and perhaps natural. But it is not so well known that "many deserving and needy students fail to win any scholarships; and that there is yet no danger whatever of a superabundance of scholarships in Harvard College...