Word: put
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...propose that education be made more materialistic and more political seems in itself a harmless enough suggestion. The decisive test of the advisability of adopting such a principle, however, must be pragmatic in nature; we must seek to discover how it works out when put into practice. For the justification of this or of any other system of education, then, we must look to the product that it brings forth...
...less neglected during the more exacting years of high-school and college, that those proclivities are still a part of oneself. They may be overlaid by the thoughts and habits instilled by the formal education, but they are there:--there as positive advantages if they can be revived and put to use in one's life profession, but, if they are not so utilized, then still there as a resource of restlessness, vague discontent, lack of interest and zest in one's profession, and so forth. For those interests and accomplishments which are not turned to account and given scope...
...present instance, firstly and least importantly, I have been put in a false light. Not the "Harvard Illustrated," but several daily newspapers have printed such a jumble of statement and misstatement that their readers will hardly avoid the conclusion that I, when about to withdraw from Harvard, have proceeded to "foul the nest". Such an Insinuation is not less than monstrous. I am about to leave Harvard entirely of my own motion, against the most cordial and friendly remonstrances of President Lowell and of my colleagues, and for reason many of which have no remotest connection with this or with...
...have not made this seizure without trying to come to an amicable agreement. Some time ago negotiations were started with the Netherlands, but Germany's influence was so strong that they were delayed and put off until it became clear there was no chance of completing them. In the meantime, Holland's ships were lying idle in our harbors at a time when they were most needed...
...announcement that Dane Hall is to be torn down can only create mixed emotions within us. We are glad that a skeleton will be put to rest, but we hate to see the passing of an old-timer, especially one who used to welcome signed checks with such avidity...