Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tract of land containing approximately 30 acres has been given to the University without restrictions by a group of 13 persons more or less intimately connected with the University. The land, which was formerly held by the Charles River Land Trust, is situated on Boylston street, Brighton, directly across the roadway from Soldiers Field...
...there is no eager youth who cares less for what is established and is more radical in his judgments than this man, who, for many fruitful years, has defied the gloomy text about the time that follows the 70th birthday. These latter years have been full of labor, but it has been healthy and happy labor...
That was 48 years ago. That eager will has not relaxed. That calm, clear intelligence is not less insistent in its demands. There is the same impatience with things as they are and the resolve to change them in the interest of things as they ought to be. I am not sure that the octogenarian is not still open to the criticism of middle-aged persons that he "wants to do too many things at once." In any organization to which he belongs you will find him pulling at the tugs with all his might, in the tranquil assurance that...
...those who neglect the less exact sciences, a word of warning. When the war is over a period of reconstruction will come, unparalleled in the world's history. This will be a world Renaissance, and even so far as the arts of the world are now dragging in the dust, so then they will be raised to a standard as high as they are now low. The engineer and the architect will rebuild broken material Europe, the teacher, the philosopher, the sociologist and the journalist must rebuild the minds of the nations, downtrodden in the struggle with a material might...
...States and Prussia, merchants of both countries should have nine months to settle their affairs and leave. Those nine months have now expired. No one, if he remembers the destruction of American property on the high seas, can say that we are grabbing what we can from a defence-less enemy. The argument that their industries should not be returned until this property is paid for is certainly convincing...