Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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 has not kept pace with our demand for basic products. For a number of years the increasing demands of an increasing population have been met by a draft on our reserve supplies and resort to temporary and makeshift means of raising production. But at last...
...control the industrial and commercial activities shows the necessity of training in organization and management. To educate citizens with this purpose in view becomes a service to the nation. In the years of reconstruction which are due to come, the aid of trained business men will be necessary. The growth of the graduate school shows progress whether in war or in peace...
...broke out with Germany in April, 1917, because of German attacks upon the property and lives of Americans on the high seas, and within our own country. Behind these immediate and intolerable grievances was the purpose of the United States to join with other nations in preventing the growth of a prodigious world power, which has shown its arrogant domination by brutal treatment of weak powers...
...growth of these activities is useful not merely for the contribution they make to the intellectual life of the public surrounding our colleges. The institutions themselves stand to gain by building up such a "department of the exterior." The deeper root the colleges take in the actual life and environment of the people around them the more healthy their own life as academies is bound to become. And the contribution is sometimes specific as well as general. In one New England college the course of lectures on ethical problems which a professor arranged for a series of Sunday night meetings...
...this the parent stock of the Har- vard Regiment has contributed to the nation's service, and still it remains a hardy growth. In bringing each of its contributions to their maturity, it has gained, for its future direction and work, a corresponding sum of experience. The element of preserved continuity proved its value again this autumn when the officers in charge of the regiment faced a fresh task, after many of their "veterans" had been called to the colors, and when hundreds of entering freshmen had come up for training. The work of organization and training advanced with despatch...