Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inscribed on records of Harvard's fame than will the names of those three dead Harvard graduates who gave their lives to the German cause in the Great War. Sometimes, as in this case, with the proposed building of a new memorial chapel to the Harvard dead, the question becomes embarrassing. But far oftener, the names of these infamous graduates are suffered to remain in the dust of newspaper morgues, known to few and acclaimed by none, while their spirit moves on, unchecked, endowed with succeeding generations of their unwitting heirs...
...note in the general discussion which has flared up noticeably in the last year or two concerning the perplexing question as to the distribution of the cost of education, was sounded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. at the Commencement luncheon at Brown University. The question till now has been largely in the minds of educators who have been concerned with the probler of increasing the income already established through gifts and endowments. These contributions in their present or even an increasing ratio have been taken for granted. Now comes the prophetic warning from the head of a family whose contributions...
...been claimed that this was true of every artist and it probably is, though the dramas or Schiller and the Epics of Homer may offer some difficulties to the interpreter, and the works of Shakespeare, seen under this view, have not yet given the last answer to the question, whether Bacon or Shakespeare. There are, however, writers whose life and work proceed hand in hand in such a way that each new work is on its face a distinct confession of the author's artistic creed and his experience in a certain period of his life. That is the case...
...second question is of a more profitable sort. It is, what evil will result from this advance of practical education? or was it not folly in the beginning to set up state colleges upon the same bases and with the same objects as private colleges? Public institutions, even though practical, may well carry the burden of vindicating scientific knowledge and careful study as an approach to everyday professional and industrial tasks. And private institutions may retain the task they have long ago assumed and steadily followed, that of proving to those who will attend the proof, that the knowledge...
Some thoughtful person once declared that "the pen is mightier than the sword" and thus opened up a question which has been the subject of debate for many, many-years. Of course the phrase was used in a general sense, implying that the written word has more power and influence than have the implements of war. But it is interesting to note the fact that the statement taken literally is at present well night out of date...