Word: equipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college for hoboes" opened last fall by a Chicago woman one of the regular students announced that he was a "milleniumite", that his philosophy was the philosophy of the doughnut; "the bigger the doughnut, the bigger the hole." He entered vigorously into the activities of the college, helped equip a stage; and directed the production of the plays got up by the pupils until the pangs of hunger forced him to leave the institution and go to work...
...modern university is not a business college nor a secluded preparatory school, numerous opinions to the contrary, and it never should become either. Instead it offers athletics and competitions as foretastes of the keener "struggle for existence," and courses of study to equip the intellect not with facts but with methods of securing and using them. In this way it can turn out a well grounded and well proportioned man ready for the next step toward the future; provided "Barkis is willing...
...that by your side were placed, as your instructors and guides, several high grade accountants--men of national reputation--their sole duty being to train and equip...
Suppose today an architect planned and constructed a 30-story skyscraper and supplied it with most of the modern conveniences, such as running water, electric lights, sanitary arrangements and ventilation, but did not equip it with elevators before opening it up for public use but instead, only provided stairways from the first to the 30th floors, because a generation ago such stairways were all that were necessary in the then existing buildings. How much space do you think would be rented in that building? What would you think of that architect? I will not give your answer out loud...
What use is to be made of the Centennial Endowment Fund? Is it to be used to build more dormitories--or is it to be used to equip to better advantage the University as it is? Those who have given freely to the Fund have done so because they believed in the wisdom and the vision of those directing it. Let them not fail in their duty...