Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...case, they who undertake to defend civilization against its enemies must understand the grounds of the accusation. They must also know what civilization has to say for itself on economic grounds. In short, they must understand our industrial system, and know wherein it is strong and wherein it is weak, wherein it may be improved and to what extent it must be reformed. This presents a large field of study for the student of economics...
...want to be relieved of this burden. If the people of this country keep their uniformed men from the necessity of hunting jobs and provide them with a means of beginning civilian life without handicaps, they will honor them as no formal war memorial could. As soon as we know definitely that the last drop of American blood has been shed for this war, and that all the men who so desire are well situated in civilian life, there will be ample opportunity to discuss some architectural monument...
...like to ask Mr. Wheelwright how many of his instructors have been made unfit for his friendship by their wealth. I would like to ask him further how much personal sacrifice he has made to be in the "sympathetic company and congenial surroundings" of Harvard. As far as we know the only sacrifice which Mr. Wheelwright has made has been in writing this most absurd communication. JOHN F. FULTON...
...this weapon. "Being called to court" and "going to court" are phrases as terrible to many persons as was the fear of eternal damnation to some of our forefathers. If these ideas can be educated out of minds of those who believe them, so that the ignorant man will know and believe that he will at all times get a square deal and that there is a power in the state that he can go to enforce that square deal, the future will need to have little fear of Bolshevism or any of the other isms. The legal aid movement...
...control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride, morale and scholastic incentive of the Harvard undergraduate? In which epoch was there the greater tendency toward exercise in the open? Personally I do not know, but I do know that these, among other things, are points to consider in any question involving that athletic abnegation which a possibly misguided idealism might bring about. It is all a problem in pragmatics