Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Compared with the provisions for scientific research in countries like France and Germany, ours are pitifully meagre. The energy of our colleges and universities is primarily directed to increasing the number of students, buildings and degrees conferred. The professors are so loaded up with the routine teaching and such an unconscionable amount of administrative work, that he who would engage in genuine scientific research must do so by stealth and at the expense of his health. Nor do we provide many incentives for that kind of work. The public reward and recognition extended to technologic promoters...
...only two or three hundred are working at the front, or near the front, in ambulance work. The term of the engagement is only six months and very few stay on after the period has elapsed. As one who has been at this work for a twelvemonth I would like to say that recruits are urgently needed. We want men who have had experience in driving and can make their own running repairs. It has been perfectly extraordinary how the wrong...
...unmentioned ways not sanctioned by the most orthodox Puritans, we turn again to work. One of the unfailing companions of the first week of January, as unfailing as shattered resolutions, is a grisly warning of the imminence of mid-years and possible disaster. With a hundred other Cassandra-like prophets we again raise our voice and give warning of impending destruction...
...about as capable of being fully appreciated by an American audience as the Zend Avesta by a white-tied Methodist. Not that "Major Barbara" is not enjoyable, adverse criticism would reflect nowhere but on the unsatisfied but it is all so mysterious and sphinx-like...
What are the causes of this pernicious weakness? Undoubtedly they are in part world-wide, for the decline in the birth-rate among Harvard men is paralleled by a like decline among the upper and middle classes in all civilized nations and especially in America. However, this does not exonerate college men; the guilt rests even more heavily upon those who have had opportunity to see the light...