Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...communication has yet directly challenged the statement that such policies are a result of a mutual misinterpretation of the needs of national defense, resulting from the failure of international law and political organization to keep pace with the growth of economic and intellectual interdependence. Thus, because we believe the self-interest of every civilized nation coincides with the limitation of armaments and the prevention of war, we are very optimistic as to the possibility of permanent peace provided only the peoples of the nations can be educated as to what their self-interest is; and provided the necessary machinery...
...Cambridge to visit the University at work. He wants the day to be academic in its nature and only casually athletic or social. Dean Hurlbut has an article on "Conduct and Scholarship of the Year" taken from his annual report. After noting the progress in scholarship, and the growth of serious interest in college work, and after arguing for a longer Christmas vacation, Dean Hurlbut concludes with the following tribute to the Student Council...
...make up for the deficit in the "University, College, and Library Combined Account," a sum approximately $20,000 last year and $50,000 this year. A permanent deficit is impossible. It is also impossible to raise a sufficient sum to do away with the deficit and allow the proper growth of instruction; the increase in tuition fees is therefore the only feasible way to raise the needed...
Professor J. A. Walz, of the German Department, spoke last evening on "The Moral Forces of Modern Germany." Professor Walz introduced his subject by a brief summary of the growth of German national spirit from the sixteenth century, emphasizing the important part played by Prussia in the unifying of what once was a mass of over three hundred principalities. The fundamental principles of German political philosophy, he said, are authority, liberty, and duty. These ideas run through all the forms of German public activity, and it is for their sake that the Teutonic allies are now fighting. Some time...
...repay the study of every member of the University. The report shows that the University in the past year has grown in many ways, and that the device carved on one of its gates, "Enter to Grow in Wisdom" is not an idle one, for increased opportunities for such growth are always being added. But President Lowell does not make his report merely a series of verbal boquets. He points out several matters which stand in need of change and improvement...