Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University is often--and bitterly--attacked for being the leader of educational reaction in America. There is just enough distorted truth in this charge to demand a refutation. Out accusers must necessarily answer this question: Is there at Harvard a corporate academic conservatism? And no unbiased observer could fail to answer this question in the negative. The root of all these charge lies in a dangerous misconception; It is assumed that because many students are of the conservative class. This is obviously ridiculous. The Status of a certain group of students can neither be caused be nor cause the intellectual...
...mental balancings of accounts are no less necessary for success. A business house that proceeded without weighing its assets and liabilities at regular intervals would invite financial disaster, and a man who does not occasionally compare what he is with what he wants to be, is equally sure to fail...
...said, "have founded the movement on the same theory on which the United States is based, the inherent goodness of human nature. There are many possibilities in every youth which are not always evident except in some natural crisis. No one who has to do with young boys can fail to realize this. The difficulty which one encounters is in trying to bring out these qualities when there is no natural crisis at hand. That is what you are trying to do. You are teaching them that there is something else in life worth living for besides seeking that which...
Should Germany fail to reach Bukarest and Galatz she will suffer her greatest set back in the war; perhaps a fatal set back. Should she, on the contrary, secure the economic and transportation facilities that are involved, her hand will be stronger than at any moment for a diplomatic move. With either Russia or Japan she may come to terms, and if with the latter then we should be face to face with our own hour of peril...
...have an opportunity to throw off the disguise, and present their normal, frivolous and foolish characters to their classmates. The gathering will be exclusive, the entertainment informal, the speeches inspiring and the conversation highly entertaining. It is the first event on the social' calendar for the winter. Don't fail to accept the invitation in person...