Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Without Restraint...
...many who think of education not as a tool to enable them to be useful. To men who prize a Harvard education, or any education, not for its value to something to be determined later, but for the opportunity which it offers for individual growth free of curbing restraint, the phrase will convey a meaning not in accord with what they have conceived, to be the glory of Harvard...
...that building famed. Operating on a large scale from 1890 to his retirement in 1910, Mr. Patten is credited with being the only man who ever established corners in all four of the major markets-wheat, corn, oats and cotton. Though prosecuted under the Sherman Law for acting "in restraint of trade" Mr. Patten always denied that he was a "speculator," maintaining that his ability to forecast grain prices resulted from his thorough knowledge of crop conditions...
...fields of Eton, every Englishman and every fair-minded foreigner will admit that the Great War was won on the football fields of the United Kingdom. Nothing strikes the foreigner more than your independence as citizens and even your cheek when abroad. The Englishman seems to have learned the restraint of leadership while boys in other countries are learning Latin and arithmetic. "There might have been no Great War in Europe had the nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished Spanish man of letters Professor Salvador de Madariaga rose...
...Class discussion seems rather futile to me. When a man is alone with his tutor he expresses himself without restraint and the tutor gets a clear insight into each of his scholars. Your exams can be passed by cramming., A mere surface knowledge will not suffice to convince our tutors of our industry. We do not have to attend lecturers or take quizzes. Oxford leaves it up to the person to use his own initiative in educating himself. Harvard does not especially nurture the individual...