Word: manly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...torn regions fill the President with horror;" so cries the Boston Herald in an emotional headline. The statement, of course, is reasonable enough. We might expect that any normal man on viewing the devastation of the most destructive war in history would experience an emotion something akin to horror. Mr. Wilson, in spite of his six years in the presidency, is yet normal and there is nothing sensational in his feeling very much as other...
...awakened in the American people an interest in geography, an appreciation of the significance of geographic factors in the control of industrial and commercial life. Every man interested in large business enterprises should be trained in geography; every man who expects to travel in foreign lands or to enter government service should understand the geography in his own country and that of the world...
...peculiar significance and value. It means that the University has confidence enough in these young lions to grant them an honor which she is sure their own diligence would have won if the opportunity had been given. It means more. That degree has been won not alone by a man's own sacrifice, nor the sacrifice of our thousands of warriors. It has been bought with the blood of 278 of our own class-mates, and with the lives of that host of dead...
...man, not worthy, would dare lay claim to such a solemn honor. All those who do, take upon themselves the holy vow to live "honoris causa...
...university which merely teaches men to enjoy the arts and sciences, which creates a class of intellectuals, does not fulfill its complete purpose. Unless the college man rolls up his sleeves and tackles the practical issues around him he is in no position to criticise the man of inferior training who does. This straightforward meeting of the problems of the day is the University's teaching...