Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Throughout the unfortunate incident the University has had the same confidence in him that Colonel Roosevelt expressed in his recent telegram--"In all the United States there has been no more single-minded, aggressively loyal, and deeply practical American than you throughout your life have proven yourself to be."
Mine were quite well-intentioned motives in perpetrating this airy and cloud-like "pedagogical debate." It seemed to me that there was more than one defect worthy of attention in our system of education; it seemed to me that collegiate opinion on matters of vital importance had for too long...
Aside from the obvious patriotism of such a cause, there are several reasons why all right-minded people should put all the money they can spare into Liberty Bonds. To insist on spending it for some thing which one does not really need is to bid against the Government for...
On the subject of the aims of education, I wish to submit two suggestions: (1) the spirit of education should be more materialistic; and (2) more political. I assure you there is nothing in my thesis that can shock the most high-minded New England transcendentalist. Affirmatively, I in fact...
...youngest Freshman would find the present College Administration open-minded and eager to consider his complaint, and energetic to remedy the evil. If my own experience is significant, and it can hardly be other, our present administrative officers are perhaps without exception beyond reproach in point of open-mindedness, integrity, intelligence and zeal. And then in the second place, we ought to feel and carefully to foster that elemental sentiment of gratitude and affection towards the Institution whose benefits we are here accepting. It is a sentiment which could, it is true, swell into a blind and fanatical loyalty...