Word: farsightedness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Not only this University, but the entire system of education in this country, is benefited by the bequests of the late Henry Clay Frick. Here was a clear-minded, shrewd business man, a farsighted patriot, who saw how he best might serve his fellow-citizens. He realized the dire needs...
Without doubt the college man who has chosen as his summer occupation to enter the ranks of those who earn their living by muscular effort, and thereby learn at first hand the fundamental problems which face the industrial world in this era of transition and unrest, has made a the...
The great honor which has come to Mr. Simonds is ample proof that a great cause can be served behind the firing line as well as on it. Although he has written chiefly through The Times and The Tribune, of New York, there is scarcely a paper throughout the country...
The American is naturally an egoist. He loves to do things in a spectacular way with himself as hero. Subconsciously he knows himself to be just a little better, stronger, and more farsighted than any foreigner. This supreme confidence, misplaced as it may be, gives him unbounded energy to do...
But this time a difficult task must be undertaken; the wounds which cosmopolitanism has received from the world catastrophe must somehow be healed. Ever since the little meeting of Scandinavian students at Lund, Denmark, in 1842, farsighted university men have been dreaming of an international understanding. All through the second...