Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...kind in the entire country, and probably in the world. So successful has been the work of the school and such complete facilities for proper training are there provided, that all radio schools in the country are being closed as quickly as is possible, with the exception of those small stations preparing men for entrance to this Cambridge post...
...this method, many of the problems faced today will be solved. Almost none of the captains of the minor sport teams are back this year, and there would be no one to organize a University or class team, but an entirely new organization can be made among the small groups of men in the companies or battalions. If this plan is responded to with any enthusiasm and a keen rivalry springs up in the regiment, it should be possible to hold field days both this fall and next spring for athletic competitions...
...call attention to the resignation of Professor Beard of Columbia because he believes that university to be "under the control of a small and active group of trustees who have no standing in the world of education, who are reactionary and visionless in politics, narrow and medieval in religion"? No more inspiring act in the struggle of intellect against political control has taken place in the last few years. The vociferous martyrdom of Dr. Scott Nearing in the cause of "acadamic freedom," coupled with its demands for three-cent fares in these times of rising operating costs and his recent...
...been said by some who study history, that times make men; and again, by others who study history, that men make the times. Neither statement is a full truth, even as human truth is constituted. For there have been great epochs with small men, and small epochs with great men, who burst their hearts against the narrow walks of their environment, and died...
...mighty glad I am here, as I consider it a very great privilege to be able to take an active part, even if it is a small part, in the fight for the greatest cause the world has known, next to that of Christianity. This war is like a football game on a huge scale. It takes the very best men to play it and success depends on wonderful team-work and tremendous sacrifices. And there is a tremendous amount at stake...