Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risk of being found sentimental, I dare confess that I think that teaching is a mission. We are not here merely to create other puny scholars in our own image, but to send out into life men who shall, in the words of Pericles, be most completely and most gracefully self-sufficient in the face of the most varied circumstances. I know that I am not speaking for myself alone when I say that I had rather send forth one such man than be the lauded agent in dragging the poor bones of the dead from the oblivion to which...
...future even more than in the past, we should attract to our student body the most promising young men throughout the whole nation. To accomplish its mission Harvard must be a truly national university. The young men who enter the College and our professional schools are today drawn from no single locality and no single class. Student aid and student employment have enabled many with small means to complete their Harvard course. It is very difficult, however, for a student without any financial resources to continue his education in a privately endowed institution. It is particularly difficult if he comes...
...read: . . . The very fact of the cooperation and friendship between two such great and powerful nations as the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics must inevitably be of great historical significance and of direct far-reaching moment in the cause of world peace. . . . On entering my mission here. I shall consider it my highest task to do everything in my power toward the creation of the closest bonds . . . between our two nations." After the Ambassador handed over his credentials, the President read in reply: "A deep love of peace is the common heritage of the people...
...been wiped out by the Paraguayans with a loss of 15,000 men (TIME, Dec. 25). To the League Commission Bolivia proposed an armistice. The Commission relayed this proposal last week to Paraguay, received a counter proposal for an eleven-day truce which Bolivia accepted. Then the Com- mission wired Dictator Terra and his El Pueblo siren shrieked...
Journalists in Italy are happy-if they are 100% Fascist zealots. Their profession has been violently transformed into a mission. They are hot-gospelers for the State. picked for their ability to believe and act in harmony with the slogan printed everywhere, "Il Duce is never wrong!" Once an editor, II Duce realizes that the details of his press domination are best kept secret from countries in which journalism is still a free profession. Last week Manhattan's anti-Fascist daily La Stampa Libera was able to publish copies of a smuggled series of daily orders released...