Word: onwardness
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...believe this we should not be here now. If we were not firmly convinced that our ideals pointed to a healthy democracy, that our plan of life offered an ever-increasing opportunity to each individual for self-realization we could hardly have built up the faith that carries us onward. We are therefore thankful that we had the facilities to offer the Radio School and the Ensign School, that other men might come here and form a fairer estimate of our way of living and of our intentions...
...When the time comes, there is going to be a mighty struggle for ideals. That is why the universities and colleges of America should be the centre of a kind of manhood that is soldierly, that has moral decision and generalship. The battle front in Europe moves onward slowly, thrusting out a wedge in the enemy's line, and gradually widening that narrow wedge until the whole line is even with it, and ready to push forward a new attack in another place. It is just so that civilization attacks barbarism, and the fight for the future moves on. They...
...great problem of the socialists today is to find the first to those transited steps which lead to socialism," said Mrs. Kelley, "We must get away from the fatalistic attitude towards socialism and begin on the transitory methods which will lead us onward to the proper goal. The cry that there are practical barriers to all socialistic propositions must be buried. University and socialist literature must be published throughout the land; such news as the University of Wisconsin in several of its departments has recently undertaken. The public school system and the slight democraticism of one branch of the national...
Oxford and Cambridge occupy an unique position in the minds of Englishmen, a position to which no college or group of colleges can ever hope to attain in the United States. Through whatever spectacles one views English history from the thirteenth century onward, he cannot help but perceive the influence of the universities on the life of the country. I need not elaborate the point. It is sufficient to say that, like the best of everything else in English life, the universities have been saved for 'the best...
March! March! Onward to the goal...