Word: existent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...civilization. Nothing could be more pitiful and blind than for the University to bury itself in books, and pass by an institution which has a purpose so nearly akin to its own. The situation in Europe provides us with an example of what the possibilities are. If any differences exist in the possibilities here, it is that they are greater, and more urgent. Here, more than in Europe, the opera needs backing. Money may be superficially the most important need of the Boston Opera Company, but the more fundamental need is an intelligent interest. This must be the foundation...
...point made by a contributor who, in discussing Socialism, said that the present system of society is fundamentally good and that the evils which exist arise from wrong doing of individuals is very superficial...
...possible adjustment of them to one another. It is a false conception of liberty which looks upon it as a system of disconnected parts, free from co-operation. Freedom is the chance to relate oneself to the force and activity of the mass without destroying oneself, and does not exist in factories where the operatives beg reformers to let things be for fear that reforms will simply cause more suffering and hardship for them, rather than a comparatively slight sacrifice on the part of the employer...
...Northerner and Southerner can hold together, that can inspire patriotism and at the same time not awaken partisan feeling. Without such a course an ignorance flourishes which not only shuts men from an interesting topic of conversation, but also dulls their patriotism, and may allow blind prejudices to exist...
...often a Senior leaves college with an over-abundance of theoretical knowledge, but without a sufficient idea of practical conditions as they exist to apply what he has learned. He is filled with the desire to be of service to his community, and has spent four years in sharpening his intellectual tools. When he starts work he finds his actual environment quite different from what he expected--a problem which he very little understands...