Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons of educational experience that it is too much the tendency of modern colleges to run their own course entirely apart--from the march of events in the world at large: and that when their sheltered graduates attempt to take their places as cogs in the larger machine, they spend much unnecessary time in orientation. Although this point of view may be in part open to a charge of exaggeration, particularly in the case of great universities, there is contained in it enough truth to make the present experiment seem not absolutely certain of success. And the idea of naming...
...Whether you have a Tory, Liberal or Labor Government, you cannot do much with people who can do nothing but be amused by someone else or something else?people who have not in themselves the capacity to spend time with themselves, spend it profitably. The foundation of those evils is that we are losing the sense of human values; we are going far too much after superficialities, after gold braid, after things hanging from the lapels of coats, after 'right honorables,' which occasionally ring dishonorables...
...stream of visitors who come to spend a few brief-hours in the vicinity of Harvard Yard, and then pass on their critical way leaving burning comment behind them, it is unusual to find a man with the geniality of the Reverend Vivian T. Pomeroy, who was this week's speaker at Appleton Chapel. Mr. Pomeroy fears that he is not fully equipped to comment on University affairs, which places him at once among the immortal few who, like Socrates, know their own limitations...
...feel that, although my master in former years-James Bryce- was certainly the best that any man could have, I shall have to spend a certain time here before I can really graduate and take my degree. But I hope that the American press, who will be my examiners, whether I like it or not, will not be too hard, and I am encouraged by the fact that never, I believe, in the history of the two countries have their relations been so friendly and cordial as now. Indeed, it seems to me that my chief duty will...
...Morgan, famed banker: "I sailed for Europe on the Lapland. On reaching Naples I shall go aboard my yacht The Corsair and shall spend several weeks cruising the Mediterranean, going as far east as Egypt...