Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special legislative committee. The statistics which they will gather will doubtless show, that in consideration of the 141,000 illiterate in this state, there is some need for such an institution. But it must be remembered that the old liberal arts college and the large endowed university have a precious place in the educational life of America, a place which vocational training does not attempt to fulfill. The fetish of size in education is fatal and the idea that colleges are for all is impossible. Thousands would not know what to do if they had the benefits of expensive higher...
...nothing but what form time immemorial has been known as "Harvard indifference". Can anybody seriously question that there must be something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might...
...nothing but what form time immemorial has been known as "Harvard indifference". Can anybody seriously question that there must be something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might...
...generous hope that succeeding generations may be spared the matutinal proclamation--abandon such wanton waste of brain energy! For as long as royal decrees survive, and until the initiative spirit of the outside world has penetrated the venerable customs of antiquity, the inane din will continue to destroy precious Senior slumber...
Only those undergraduates who have had the privilege of coming under the influence of Professor Wendell at his home can realize with the graduates how precious a part of the University has gone; the others can only vaguely regret the loss of an inspirational presence they were never fortunate enough to know...