Word: dreamed
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...attraction offered by municipal research is due to the fact that it seems to promise a realization of the great American dream that usually grows dimmer and dimmer after college walls are left behind, viz: "Self-government for the benefit of all the governed." This dream will never come true simply because college men go into politics. Unless college training has radically changed within the last twelve months, it would be a civic tragedy to turn over the government of American cities to men chosen simply because they were college men. In talking to our professors, to our students...
Self-government for the benefit of all the governed will be an idle dream until inside information about the facts of the government becomes possible. Monopoly of information must precede monopoly of franchise. When all men are looking, corrupt politicians walk quite as straight a line as college presidents. As the Independent said recently, in urging a permanent endowment for the Bureau of Municipal Research, "Attempts at reform have failed in New York and elsewhere because the Republican and Democratic Tammany Halls of our cities have had inside information and have been able to make black look white because...
...supply; it is the proposed extension of the principle upon a scale of portentous magnitude that gives the issue its engrossing interest. The proposition is in itself characteristic of the age, for whether it be regarded as a real factor in the progress of civilization or only the mistaken dream of impracticable visionaries, it is entitled to the credit of a gentle birth. It is one of the phenomena of the groping fraternalism that has so markedly characterized the civilization of the last half century. This question cannot be arbitrarily dismissed. It is far too grave to be left...
...wake them from their dream...
...been connected with the department of English ever since he graduated in 1887. In 1895 he was made an Assistant Professor and in 1905 Professor of English. He has published a number of books, among which are: "Specimens of Argumentation," "Lyly's Endymion," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," edited for a series of school classics, "Principles of Argumentation," "The Revolving Hedge," and "The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist." Professor Baker has written also articles for the Graduates' Magazine, the Harvard Monthly and the American University Magazine. He has given several lectures, chiefly on the modern drama, at Smith College...