Word: moulds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After expressing the satisfaction he felt at the thought of the response the conference had brought from men in the various seminaries who came to the University yesterday. Dr. Leslie emphasized in particular the needs of the modern ministry and its opportunities; the need for men to mould the thought and the life of other men toward Christian ideals at this period of this world's history; and the opportunities for a life of service, which no other profession offers...
...wealth to become a real benefactor. Labor, with its plan of state and Federal endowment of colleges would limit and deaden education. There would be less variations, less diversity, less freedom in educational opportunities. All minds would be sent through the same machinery and cast in the same mould...
Should we not pity those whose uninitiate hands can mould less than the fragment of their visions; encourage and sustain, that their hands shall more firmly hold the chisel which may carve from witless stone an inspiration for our posterity...
...fortunate enough to have obtained a college education should help to mould public opinion,--should do their utmost to give light on some of the perplexing questions of the day,--but should not so complacently and smugly "despise" the men who are earnesly attempting to solve the greatest problems of the present time...
...series of biographical sketches of snap courses was to be written, it would follow a mould as definite as do the histories of nations. A thoroughly sincere instructor offers an interesting subject in a manner so informal, so free from petty demands, that once this reputation is established the course is over whelmed by that class of incomprehensible students who regard a successful life impossible without a college degree but meanwhile struggle to make that degree mean as little as possible...