Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last is the true motto of the church. For, to Dr. Fosdick and to Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who have spared neither money ($4,000,000) nor thoughtful care for all details, the church is important only because of its prospective occupants. Who are they? They are students from every state and nation-tens of thousands who make upper Broadway near Riverside Drive the biggest student community (Columbia with all its schools, Barnard, Union Theological) in the U. S. They are, moreover, professors and friends of professors, thou- sands of educated people who live nearby and have...
...motto "Occasionem Cognosce," which is inscribed above the main gate of Lowell House at Cambridge, will serve as an adequate and fitting memorial to the foresight of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell in undertaking the establishment of the Harvard house plan, the most significant of the achievements of a brilliant academic career. For President Lowell has never more surely seen his opportunity and acted upon it than when he enlisted the sympathies and generosity of Edward S. Harkness...
...endeavor to explain Mr. Babbitt's humanism here would be impertinent. Whoever takes his course may see for himself, if he likes. Suffice it to say that Mr. Babbitt is a preacher of proportion and the golden mean. Like the ancient Greeks, he takes as his motto: "Nothing too much". All external standards, such as religion, he throws overboard, and appeals to the wisdom of human experience as the only rule to order life. He shuns as the plague all the emotional ecstasies that break down the rigid self-discipline which is his prescription for all humanity...
...students. Harvard asks no blind subservience to the doctrines of any man. She bespeaks tolerance and fair play and respect for the sincere opinion of others. She frowns upon all narrow-ness; she resents the imputation of unworthy motives to those from whom we may happen to differ. Her motto is truth. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free...
Eager to impress French readers with the "warlike spirit" of Germany, Le Journal reproduced the design of the new German coins, headlined the coin's motto: "The Rhine, Germany's River, Not Germany's Frontier...