Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Past is a purpose with which college men will sympathize; but the more immediate concern must rightly be the Future. There are crying needs in the University which must be met at once it the great traditions and purposes of Harvard are to be upheld. Surely it is finer, without neglecting the idea of the memorial, to combine it with something that can at the same time be of concrete value of the world. It is almost repugnant to think of repaying the service and sacrifice of our War victims with something that represents not service but empty idealism...
...they cannot choose service intelligently; professional men generally are slacking in perception of educational principles, that the only distinctions they can make are between conservatism, which they may consider to be safety or stupidity, and innovation, which to them may be synonymous either with progress or with dangerous radicalism. Finer distinctions they frequently seem incapable...
Cardinal Mercier in accepting the plans of the memorial expressed the spirit of the undertaking most effectively when he said: "But even still finer and more touching than the gift of the Library to Louvain is the gesture of the nation which claimed the privilege of rebuilding...
Heretofore our time and attention have been occupied by the problems of the physical world rather to the exclusion of the intellectual. Now our physical problems are so far conquered as to allow us to turn to the finer and more enduring sides of life. Among the thousands who fell on the battle fields of Europe there must have been innumerable men who, had fortune been more kindly, would have made their marks in the world of art, literature, and music. They are gone past recovery, and we should try to fill their shoes...
...stringency of concentration and distribution requirements, and, finally, this added freedom given to Seniors who deserve the privilege, education at the University is assuming a far less commercial tinge. The Faculty has shown its willingness to do its part; the undergraduate has opened to him a newer and finer opportunity for obtaining a truly liberal education...