Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Curtis answered promptly, in terms which made the Borah questions unnecessary to reprint and with a directness which other candidates would find it hard to match. Senator Curtis, the "honest Injun," said...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which still govern the University, a reference is made to the "republic of letters," with the interests of which the University is identified, and it is into Harvard's part of the "republic of letters" that you are welcomed first of all. I hope you will find in it an inspiring home. None of us would care to attempt a definition of citizenship in such a republic. Certainly all of those who would claim it do not merit such distinction. Fortunately, it is a republic without either boundaries or territory and its immigrants are not restricted...
...bound up with religion and nationality. But I believe that no communities exist where such biases count for less than in some of the great universities of our time. Whatever be your religion or your nationality, whether indeed you care to claim either, I hope that you will find here a welcome which will encourage you to pursue learning with the utmost freedom. We have a habit of dividing the members of the University into two classes, professors and students, but I often find myself dissatisfied with such a classification. It draws a very misleading distinction between our members...
Those of you who have come to Harvard for the first time will doubtless find here things which make your life different from that in the universities of your native lands. You may find some of our many systems of instruction strange. You may think that some of the requirements of courses and credits are too rigid. You may feel that our community puts too much emphasis on the sports which we call athletics. But I hope none of these things will discourage you, and I think you will not find a lack of facilities for scholarship. Magnificent libraries...
...sure that happy days and happy evenings await you here. I hope you will find everywhere that hospitality which is always given to American students so generously when they go abroad. And when you return to your native land, I hope you will carry with you some affection for Harvard as a republic of letters and some understanding of the republic which, we know as America...