Word: kindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...progress of the college has been marked by the irregularity of its development. Struggling through the early years of the last century it seemed for a time destined to be a little backwoods academy, without distinction of any kind, confining its scope to the education of the solid yeomanry of New Hampshire. About the size of Amherst and Williams, but without their academic prestige, Dartmouth was well on the way to obscurity...
...Nevertheless, it has some advantage over a monastic kind of education which withdraws from ordinary contact of life a group of boys of similar environment and denies to them real instruction and guidance in such matters as understanding the organization of industry, contact with practical situations in politics, how to meet every kind of human being, how to budget personal time and expenditures, and how to integrate earning capacity with learning...
...Poetical values are, after all, values, in a human life," he continued. "You cannot mark them off from other human values, as though the nature of man were built in bulkheads; as though there were a department of poetry hermetically sealed, a kind of padded room of aesthetic so effectively sound proof that the ravings of poesy are unable to disturb either the moral sense in us or the instinct for truth...
Professor Palmer is nearing his eighty-eighth birthday, and his talk yesterday was full of the experiences of his life. Again and again he urged the importance of proper care of the body, and stressed the need of the right kind of foods. Abstinence from stimulants of all sorts, plenty of exercise, and sensible habits were recommended for longevity...
...degree of Master of City Planning is the first of its kind to be offered by any American University. The new school is an additional unit under the Faculty of Architecture...