Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Custom has it, too, that we should give our parting word. Nearly everything seems to have been said; yet we will venture this: A few years ago commencement speakers were telling their audiences of the bright future that awaited them. This year they are either openly admitting that the prospect is dark or are trying to explain why the world has gone wrong. This year few speakers have wished that they were young men just beginning -- they seem on the other hand to be glad that they can so soon step aside...
...prospect of a closer educational union between the British and American Universities cannot but appeal to the undergraduate imagination. In the agitation at Princeton for the establishment of scholarships for English students, there may be seen a definite step toward the realization of this dream. The interest which has been aroused over the subject encourages the hope that Princeton's action is the beginning of a general movement among the American universities which will perform a real service to the country...
...thinking man, after due consideration of conditions, is willing to admit that something should be done; but the prospect of a timber shortage a hundred years from now does not alarm him tremendously. Other problems that will affect him rather than his descendants claim his attention...
...naturally comes its way. It does not admit impatiences, or rebellion to discipline, or too fierce a love for the purple patches of life and nothing else. To write well, to write abundantly, to write long, so that having embarked on profession we do not have to face the prospect of being stranded high and dry in it, we need "school." Of "school" the American temperament is of all temperaments the most defiant; and yet the man who submits to it is in the end the winner...
...Department to reserve as far as possible the posts in these countries for the language trained officers of each service so that those who enter a particular field enjoy the prospect of a definitely assured consular career in the country to which they are assigned as soon as they have qualified by study and experience...