Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This latest development of the growth of the preparedness movement has a real significance for Harvard men. Opportunities for training are now offered students in three branches of warfare. For men who prefer army service, there is Plattsburg; for those inclined to aeronautics, there is the new flying corps; and, thirdly, the chance to practice fighting methods on shipboard...
Music is as essential to human life as a religion. The growth of true music, as the growth of a great philosophy, must be from the heart and from the mind. And to bring a man's intellect to the proper pitch for producing music, it is necessary for him to have had the time to be a student,--to have probed to the truths of life for their own sake. This is the lesson of the college to the artist and to the musician, a desire to understand and to express life, and a firm conviction that what...
...sake of the aesthetic satisfaction to be derived from such a view. This he calls the pagan morality, and such it is if Francis Thompson is the authentic model of Catholicism and Cotton Mather of non-Catholic Christianity. But may it not here be the signs of a growth in wisdom, the accumulation of maturing years? Besides, poets are notoriously poor philosophers; even Dante has been suspected of heresy for placing Siger de Brabant in Paradise. And so Mr. Wright would beatify his "fair Pagan." "For he who going through life, embraces virtue like a friend...
...heavy machinery in a building where delicate measurements are to be made, is most undesirable; it is much to be desired, therefore, that a special building be erected to contain our machine shops. Another question of great importance to the Department is the increase of our income, for the growth of research has considerably outstripped the funds available from our Endowment
...Architectural School justifies its status as a separate branch of the University. From 1906, when the combined Departments of Architecture and Applied Science were instituted as a Graduate School, to 1914, when the engineering department combined with Technology and Architecture became a separate graduate school, there has been great growth. In the competitions held recently by the Boston Society of Architects the new School accounted admirably for its year of separate existence...