Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...social sciences, by which I particularly mean economics and sociology, are to be strengthened by new professorships, and the sort of work known generally under the term of university extension, by which the strength of the university is given to the technical guidance of the community and the state, will be developed on a departmental basis...
...course the mere establishment of the Charles W. Eliot Fund for a Harvard Educational School will not mean the development of an immediate cultural Utopia in New England. But at the same time it is a most generous initial step in a campaign, which is bound to come, if America is to continue to turn out ever more completely educated men to cope with her problems at home and abroad...
...vigor, to raise the average mental power of the people through better education-- in the broadest sense of the word. Such a program can best be carried out through the colleges. Indeed a certain amount of compulsion is often an absolute necessity in our American universities. This does not mean at all that they should increase compulsion in order to force down the national lever against it. It simply means that they should actively champion real educational reforms which aim to reach the people of the country as a whole...
...glad that the "Legion" is to be non-partisan. Without the least bit of partisanship, but with purely American principles, we can find plenty to think about and plenty to do. It is our duty to lend our support and our influence to purely American ideals. I do not mean that I think America's fighting men to be reactionary in their policies. They are not. But I do believe they are the sort that will oppose certain agitators who uphold doctrines which in other countries resulted in revolution,--doctrines which oppose the system of government under which we fought...
...something Homeric in the venture of Pilot Hawker and Commander Grieve in their Sopwith machine. Flinging away their landing carriage and deliberately avoiding steamship lanes, they undertook a voyage, as perilous as any since the days of Columbus and Cabot. What a continuous flight of twenty hours must mean is clear to anyone who has spent with the hum of engines throbbing in his ears, even three hours in the air. Our wonder increases when we consider that this longest flight yet attempted was made in a plane with only one engine, little chance of floating if forced to descend...