Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...President Taft said at the opening meeting: 'We are modest in our hopes, but that is no reason for thinking that we cannot accomplish that we recommend...
...Harvard to be a national university with a local college as its neucleus? The answer is to make the College also national. And the chief reason why it fa9ls to keep pace with the University in national expansion, is to be found in the system of entrance examinations. Particularly in the western part of he country these examinations militate strongly against a greater number of men coming to Harvard, because admission to the local western colleges requires only a certificate. The factor of inaccessibility has been largely obviated by the decision to accept Board examinations. Nevertheless, as long as examinations...
There is no reason why the College cannot select the best preparatory schools of the West and accept their certificate for a small fraction, comprising the best scholars of their graduating classes. Such a procedure might very readily have the effect of actually making an examination-less admission to Harvard the goal for scholastic competition in many schools. And it would in all probability attract a number of the most desirable...
...first day's recruiting has resulted in more than the required 400 of tentative enlistments. There is no reason why this number should not be doubled or trebled before Saturday...
...wish to invite national atrophy and decline, we must make up our mind to do a man's part in the hard work of the world. The chances that we shall be called upon to defend our national existence seem to me very small--though that is no reason for neglecting them. But we are called upon, and must be prepared, to do our part in "enforcing peace" in the world. And we have been already called upon--to our shame--to speak up for the principles we have professed. We must be able to "speak, and be listened...