Word: ever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ever since "Poor Richard," first commissioner from the thirteen Colonies to the Court at Versailles, attained notoriety because of his threadbare clothes and shabby overcoat, the position of American Ambassador has been most difficult to hold. Utterly inadequate financial support and political dabbling at home have made our diplomatic corps the laughing stock of Europe. Affairs have reached such a pass that only a man with a private fortune can undertake to represent worthily the Government of the United States...
Behind the organization are men of great sporting prominence and the plans call for the finest structure of this kind that has ever been erected. According to the estimates of the architect, the building will cost more than $1,000,000, and will contain training facilities beside the great arena which will seat 34,500 people...
...have as its guest the American Association of Urban Universities which is holding its annual meeting over this week-end. Harvard has for many years been a member of the Association and has annually sent delegates to the meetings but this marks the first time that the Association has ever met in Cambridge...
...into contact with men of every class in the country. And to the boys who have no opportunity for education, to the mountaineers of Kentucky and Tennessee, a chance would be given. In almost no other way can the men in the back country of those states and others ever receive any advancement. For six months they would receive instruction for the mind and the body and associate with college men. The fear of a spirit of Prussianism growing out of such a system is unfounded. A broader, more educated democracy would result...
...recent address a professor of the University gave an explanation of Harvard's inaction which is worthy of thoughtful consideration. He said that the reason there had been no abrupt upset here after the war is that Harvard has always progressed at a smooth rather than a jerky rate. Ever on the lookout and with committees always investigating and suggesting improvements, the University has grown slowly but continuously. In this way Harvard, under President Eliot, faced the period of readjustment after the Civil War. The growth of the graduate schools, the liberalizing of the requirements for the degree...