Word: greated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Rogers added that the lib- erals have a certain "self-righteousness" that he does not like. They believe that they are the only people who see the great light; all others live in the dark. The average liberal is an in-between; and there is a very sharp distinction between him and a radical...
...Bostonian, audience tomorrow night exemplifies once again the present day tendency to attempt to preserve the half-forgotten practices of the past. Unfortunately, most of these movements get started too late to save many of the most interesting examples of former arts, but the present society has had the great advantage of coming into existence before folk dancing was added to the already too long list of lost arts...
...know what extraordinary changes have come in the last fifty years in material ways--in buildings, land, equipment. We know, too, how great has been the growth in numbers. I wish to say something on an aspect of the University's development which is not so much talked about, and which bears on the possibilities of the fifty years to come...
...total in Harvard College has been from 800 to 3,200. (I use round numbers.) The University has grown eight-fold; the College but four-fold. To put it in another way: in our time Harvard College contained the great majority of the University students; now the other departments contain the great majority...
This tendency is a natural and inevitable one. Advanced graduate teaching and research have developed everywhere, from small beginnings to great achievements. The country needs these more and more as it grows to manhood. And graduate work almost of necessity turns to the great cities. The centers of research everywhere are the urban centers: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore,--New Haven too (let us give our dearest enemy his due; he has an intermediate position, by no means disadvantageous...