Word: expert
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...real point of Senator Hollis's address is not touched by pointing out the expert services given the government by the University: he charged an intellectual dishonesty in the Faculty, a conservatism in teaching, due to the subsidies of the College. He can be refuted only by pointing out the actual well-known liberalism of Harvard University. Both in politics and philosophy its freedom and extreme liberalism, rather than any conservatism, have long been the only cause of complaint. The names of Lowell and Emerson in the past are well matched today by those of Lowell and Eliot, of James...
...legislators as a joke. He thinks it a great pity that the political arm of our State and National Governments should not receive support from our colleges. Never in the history of the country have the nation and the state leaned so heavily upon our colleges for expert assistance and advice in every line of Governmental work as today. After only two years political experience a college professor was elected President by the American people. In nearly every State in the Union co-operation between educator and legislator is extensive and rapidly increasing...
...publicity agent for the Boston Opera Company, Mr. Hubbard has had a broad experience in the lecture field, and his expert knowledge of the opera has made it possible for him to compose a series of very interesting and authoritative talks...
...school will be open five days a week, the courses usually being conducted in the morning. There will be several public lectures and readings in connection with the school, as well as excursions to points of historical interest, under expert guidance. A fee of $3 will be charged for registration, and the price of tuition will range from $15 to $40. A full list of courses is posted in University Hall. Any additional information may be obtained from the Secretary of the Summer School, University...
...England Mr. Lansbury is well known as an expert on the administration of the poor and unemployed classes. He has been a Poor Law Guardian near London for the last twenty years and made the minority report, with Beatrice Webb, on the Poor Law several years ago. He is also largely responsible for the Colony for the Unemployed in England, considered an important experiment in solution of one of England's most difficult problems...