Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggests that the speaker had a twinkle in his inward eye when he summoned Youth to labor for leadership. He knew that intelligent, earnest effort is the lesson which Youth must learn, and he understood that the way to encourage it was to offer attractive rewards in the form of freedom and progress. What he says about a rebellion of Youth we must take with a grain of salt. He himself hardly wants Age to be thrown in the discard; what he does want, artfully, is for Youth to want it so; because he knows that only through the discontent...
...trees and flowering shrubs; a large collection has been gathered from all parts of the world, for the purpose of determining which types are adapted to growth in the New England soil and climate. As a result of these investigations, the staff of the Arboretum has been able to offer real assistance to nurserymen and private growers in the vicinity, and has succeeded in introducing several new specimens of trees and shrubs to this region of the country. It is of great value as well to advanced students of Botany...
...although college cannot teach a man many facts that he will remember; cannot prepare all men for their particular businesses or destinies in the world at large--be it rugs or wastebaskets, literature or religion; cannot teach men the actual means--the details of their lives' works; cannot offer a man tools; (in doing so it would no longer be a college, a unity;--but would become a series of unrelated and highly specialized schools,--a university); nevertheless college can give a man the methods by which he may employ the means, the laws by which...
After all, this news is not so startling. The Bible, our own American History, and countless "great stories" have already been dramatized for the films; it is only natural--to use a strangely familiar phrase--that the legitimate stage should have its fling. "G. B. S." has ventured to offer an epic of his own for stage production; why not Keith, or Loew--or even Ziegfeld? The blind poet is in vaudeville--surely a place can be found for the "morning-star" of English poetry in musical comedy; the Wife of Bath has possibilities. Not to mention the enormous advantage...
...account of lack of background, have not had the vision to develop many new ideas. True, there are some who have had the mechanical training--builders of sanitary systems, waterworks architects, city planner--; and some who have had adequate medical training; but practically none who have had both. To offer a combined training is the purpose of the new school...