Word: landed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...provides for a national board of directors, one-third of whom will be elected by the workingmen and two-thirds of whom will be elected or appointed by the railroad officials and by the government. This board will control the wage disputes, appoint sub-committees, and will appraise all land taken over by the railroads. The plan also includes arrangements by which the government shall pay for half of the expense of any new additions to the railroad system, and the community benefited shall pay for the other half. The profits are to be divided by further arrangement...
...maintained. If the college is only a place, as some critics have charged, where a young man spends four years very pleasantly and not quite without profit, it holds a poor position among educational institutions, and is a doubtful luxury rather than a necessity in a strenuous land. But if it is a community in which young men are striving to make the most of the great opportunities intellectual, social, and physical offered them in its free air; seeking to develop themselves for life in a large world by studying what men have thought and done and learned; then...
...perfect man." Perhaps it is too much to say that this process will "get the perfect man," but it will get a better average man than now exists. Especially is this true in the problem of Americanization now before the country. There are infidels and fanatics in the land, and one is as undesirable and dangerous as the other. What is called Bolshevism is the product of too much brain education at the expense of the heart. Bolshevists imagine they are promoting a doctrine whose source is the heart and the conscience, whereas it is created out of a false...
...Great Rock in a Weary Land...
...Desire Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, Primate of Belgium, a man who, in the desolation of his country, stood as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land...