Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...paramount importance to Harvard University of the success of the Endowment Fund Campaign can hardly be exaggerated...
...with mixed emotions: joy because the war has been brought to a victorious conclusion, inevitable sorrow, for the friends and long list of fellow students who died that we might once more live in peace. But beyond any feeling of happiness or sadness we may have, there must be paramount in our minds, a deeper sense of the high task which these men who died have bequeathed to us as living citizens of a world no longer at war. For it is our duty to live for the same cause for which they died, and to take courage...
...doubt this foreign criticism is exaggerated; the foreigner fails to see any differences because he does not understand us; he see us as a people, not as individuals. Yet, when we examine his statements we find much truth in them. And paramount among the explanations which we can offer for the dearth of individualism in the United States stands our educational system, with its emphasis on the average student. Our colleges seem altogether to encourage a dead-leveling process, which stifles great individual attainment...
...alumni that one or two members of the Corporation should come from New York or cities outside of New England. They consider that new blood should broaden the outlook of the Corporation. In that there is obvious reason. But the necessity for able business men on the Corporation is paramount, to provide a strong backing and to keep the University and its professors out of need...
...reform the extra-curriculum activities at Yale. And this is mainly the work of the students themselves. But in such an atmosphere of reform it would hardly be reasonable to suppose that even the irresponsible undergraduate could escape the fever. It is worse than a revivalist camp meeting! The paramount idea in this reform is, of course, that provided men do not give as much time to outside activities, they will devote more time to their studies. By preventing a man from doing more than a certain amount of athletics, writing, managing, etc., he will be faced with the alternative...