Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...they see fit. There will be no arbitrary allotment of affirmative and negative, no attempt at concerted action. This will leave greater room for individual effort, and no previous schooling in debating will be necessary. Definitions, statistics, and citations will be less in evidence, while general intelligence and persuasive power will be of greater value than the ability to amass facts and draw fine distinctions...
...most acceptable. The formal debate of today is undoubtedly of great value to the participant, but it is not interesting to the average man. It is too technical, and redundant. The proposed contest will be considerably shorter, more varied, and more comprehensible. The emphasis on the literary quality, the power to please and persuade an audience, should bring out that phase in which our debating is weakest. Altogether, the new arrangements are to the advantage of all parties, and it is to be expected that the Pasteur Medal will assume a position of greater importance than it has previously held...
...distinction as a teacher rested on his many-sided scholarship; on his power to transmute whatever he taught into terms of a common humanity; and on his eagerness to find moral beauty in all excellence. He loved art and literature, and he had a large faith that both could be made to lend their concurrent influence not only to refinement and delight, but also to dignity of life and to the formation of lofty standards of thought and action. He inculcated the virtue of reverence. He awakened and developed ideals in his pupils, he did not impose them from without...
...neither complete nor exact. Only the reports that are allowed to be sent are what we get in this country. There is no method of expressing public opinion and feeling in the Philippines; as a result our officials, secure in their distance from America and without the ever-threatening power of the press, do whatever they please...
...latter practically complete freedom. Unless we do follow this plan they are likely to fight for their liberty, as has happened often before. Thus we first submitted to England and ended by gaining our liberty, although we were then but a small and weak country. The other great colonizing power of the world, England, has given Egypt a form of self-government. This is our duty; the longer we put it off, the harder it will be. The freedom of the Philippines will be an advantage to the United States as well as to the islanders themselves...