Word: generality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present and future, however, there is a greater and more urgent need in industry for men with a sound general education. It cannot be denied that the further advance of the world of art and science is being hampered by the growing deficiency in the supply of our more elementary needs. The shortage of food, fuel, and transportation which came to a head this winter has been developing for years. Upon an 1880 system of agriculture and a 1900 system of transportation we have been trying to found a 1918 civilization. Even the growth of our manufacturing system...
...believe that America and the world in general will accept the first alternative. But if we are to grasp the second alternative it must be at the cost of as much intelligent energy as is now applied to the higher but less vital activities of our civilization. While the college man cannot compete with the technically-trained man in the technical processes of production, he probably has a higher place in their ultimate direction. The man with the broad understanding of industry and human polity, not the specialist in one productive process, will devise the sweeping industrial reforms we need...
...called to the Cabinet as Postmaster General by President Roosevelt. During his term of office he displayed great energy in introducing practical improvements, eliminating red tape and conducting the work of the department on a purely business basis...
...organize a number of discussion groups under the supervision of University professors. These groups will meet at stated intervals to consider various phases of war problems. Professors from many different departments of the University have been secured for this work and, although the field in each group will be general students will be permitted to be under a professor whose particular subject appeals to them most...
President Eliot will be the chief speaker at the special meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, to be held at Boston University today at 10.30 o'clock. He is to deliver an address on "The Modern School," the subject having particular reference to the general movement known under that name, and exemplified by the Lincoln School. The Lincoln School is an institution in New York City now being operated under the guidance of Mr. Abraham Flexner as an experiment, by the Rockefeller Institute. The purpose of this special meeting today is to have the association...