Word: ever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...next attempt he will probably contribute more. But perhaps his greatest service has been purely unintentional. He has made two great kindred nations feel keenly how like they are, one to the other, in their basic love of good sportsmanship. He has brought Britain and America closer, perhaps, than ever before, thus imparting even more life and substance to the cordial and brotherly words uttered by President Wilson in London and Manchester last December...
...labor union for teachers is "novum organum" if ever the sun shone on anything new. We read that the teachers are rushing to affiliate themselves with this branch of the Federation of Labor; that "teachers in and about Boston, including professors at Harvard University", organized the "Greater Boston Federation of Teachers" whose purpose is to fix a minimum salary and procure adequate retirement laws...
...trend? On the continent of Europe--especially in Germany--great national compulsion, has been accompanied by a notable encouragement of freedom in the colleges. High average intelligence has been sacrificed for the creation of a small coterie of great minds. Paternalism and the intellectual ascendency of the few have ever gone hand in hand...
...then, we are to carry on the ideals of American democracy, this paternalistic movement throughout the country must be halted. We must aim, as we have been aiming, only with ever increasing vigor, to raise the average mental power of the people through better education-- in the broadest sense of the word. Such a program can best be carried out through the colleges. Indeed a certain amount of compulsion is often an absolute necessity in our American universities. This does not mean at all that they should increase compulsion in order to force down the national lever against...
...largest delegations of college men ever seen at Northfield is expected to attend the ten-day conference to be held June 20-30. The University committee announces that it will be glad to see any member of the University who desires to go to Northfield and will make arrangements so that he may attend the conference. In view of the fact that the examination period is soon to begin students should sign up immediately...