Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reminded his hearers that the University was founded for the express purpose of preparing men for the ministry at a time when the ministers were the leaders and powerful forces of the country. Since that time the leadership had passed to other occupations, but the opportunities of the ministry are now greater than most men think. He said that it was commonly believed, that there was more drudgery in the ministry, but he had been familiar with two professions, law and education, and had yet to learn of any profession where there was not drudgery...
...School of Education demands a broad constructive approach to problems of immediate practice--an approach, that is, which provides for every student the perspective which will render his efficiency something more than mechanical. "The training of teachers" must therefore be interpreted out of all recognition if it is to express the meaning of what the Graduate School of Education is undertaking...
...were possible to express in a single word the result the School aims to achieve in its students, perhaps the best term to use would be constructivemindedness. To be constructiveminded in a profession calls for a "professional consciousness" such as can be fostered by study of the history and theory of the profession and of the institutions in which its work is carried on; it calls also for mastery of the technical elements of the profession, its routine of habits, skills and adjustments; but it calls most of all for the spirit of research. The Graduate School of Education would...
...acknowledge your courteous letter in which you ask me to express an opinion as the causes of what you evidently think is a rather general belief that a Harvard education tends to make a man a snob. The quickest and best way to answer your question is to say simply that I neither think it does nor do I think that there is any such general belief. I know nothing of the alleged "hostility" to Harvard either in the west or elsewhere to which the editorial from the CRIMSON, which you so kindly enclose, refers, and I am disinclined...
...right to associate is an inherent natural right. It express itself in the formation of every social group, form the family to the state. The vital part of it is the right to say with whom one will associate. Negation in this regard is quite as important as affirmation. Like all other rights it is relative and not absolute. It is exercised subject to the equal right of others to become part of or refrain from becoming a part of any association formed, and the paramount right of all the people to regulate association, and to distinguish combination from conspiracy...