Word: founds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order have turned deserters, and their act had abandoned for a moment our streets to the mercies of a mob of thieves--it is cheering to note that the spirit of American citizenship is by no means dead, and that the saving grace of loyalty is found in many quarters. We have had in the last twenty-four hours a demonstration of notable public spirit, for example, in the action of the President, the Faculty and the students of Harvard University, who have come forward instantly to offer their services toward the preservation of peace and the defence of public...
...There is no occupation more dignified, more remunerative. It is probably true that more high-calibre men are entering the financial field than any other, and that many men, some of them trained in the professions, are are leaving their callings to enter upon this work. The reason is found in the fact, that opportunities for affluence and development are greater along financial lines than along any other. Returns to the government on income tax statements show that a greater percentage of men in the province of finance pay income taxes than in any other line of endeavor. A moment...
...oration on "Poetry and Progress," traced the relation of several fundamental ideas developed in the course of individual and social progress to the are of poetry. He showed first how the conception of right easiness has been fostered by the poets. Another ideal, scarcely less noble, he found to be the ideal of justice...
...profession? There is not occupation more dignified, more remunerative. It is probably true that more high caliber men are entering the financial field than any other, and that many men, some of them trained in the professions, are leaving there callings to enter upon this work. The reason is found in the fact that opportunities for affluence and development are greater along financial lines than along any other. Returns to the government on income tax statements show that a greater percentage of men in the province of finance pay in come taxes than in any other line of endeavor...
...watertight compartment and the student too often fails to perceive its relation to any other branch. Harvard, some years ago, set out to correct this situation so far as her own students are concerned by establishing a general examination in connection with the bachelor of arts degree and found the experiment so helpful that the plan is now being greatly extended...