Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been here seventeen days and have been asked something like seventeen hundred times what I think of America. The answer is that I don't at the moment think at all. Leaving aside the question, now I am afraid finally settled (you know which way) in England, as to whether I think at all so as you would notice it, my answer is that you don't give a fellow time for such spare time pursuits as thought. He gets off a boat and is met by a hospitable American who once had a drink with him perhaps...
...never before Harvard stands in a position to keep the balance amongst President Conant's "four essential ingredients" that make up an American university: "the advancement of learning, the liberal arts college, professional training, and a healthy student life." The balance varies from time to time; at the moment there is danger that pure learning may outstrip the liberal arts because of Mr. Conant's emphasis on research work. But as learning makes the life blood of the arts, so the arts stimulate men's minds for things intellectual and start them on a feast of which college...
...this moment of hilarity and self-congratulation over three centuries of progress, Harvard can scarcely overlook the gratitude displayed by her alumni. The great majority of Harvard graduates feel, and rightly, too, that they have gained far more than they have given the University. As time passes, each alumnus sees more clearly that four years was a small portion of his life to pay for the experience which he obtained at Cambridge...
Whenever a particular class of rulers or a particular from of government has outlived its own usefulness, it is succeeded by another class of rulers or another form of government which at that moment happens to be better fitted for the task...
...Consuls beware that when that moment comes the walls are in such condition and the garrison is so well armed that it can withstand a long and desperate siege...