Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton picker ever comes, it will behoove us to do some serious thinking about the human consequences of these machines. I heard a man familiar with the South say recently that the first effects of the development of an efficient cotton picker might be the displacement of over half a million tenant families...
...devoted to the glorification of Harvard. The exercises have consisted in gathering together leading men in all fields of learning from all parts of the earth, in listening to what they have to say, examining with them in small groups and in private consultation the great questions before the human mind, and then of honoring these representative scholars in the public ceremony which takes place tomorrow...
Thus the theme of the celebration has not been the greatness of Harvard's long history, but the advance of human knowledge. Degrees are to be conferred only upon scholars now actively engaged in advancing knowledge. The funds which are being raised to mark the anniversary will be devoted wholly to learning: to establishing professorships and national scholarships for students...
That is the principle which causes human institutions to last. The men who founded Harvard College in 1636 were of an age when many of them might have seen Shakespeare in the flesh. When Harvard was one hundred years old there was as yet no American nation. At its 200th anniversary the solidarity of the American union had still to be put to its crucial test. Yet through three hundred great and troubled years Harvard has endured; it has lived past wars and revolutions; it is older than the government under which it exists. Like a great river which...
From a financial point of view alone, the endowment fund returns as an annual reinvestment in the University a sum nearly corresponding to the total of the students' payments. Expenditures in time and money are thus admittedly counterbalanced by tremendous gains, intellectual and human. A wealth of memories crowds all thought of "what might have been" from the minds of pessimists who argue that college is not worth while...