Word: states
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this is such a state of transition, and as a good many of the most important traditions in our college life have been interrupted during the last few years, I wish, in behalf of those who are at Harvard for the first time, to say a few words with reference to the founding and the object of the expositions given at Harvard each season by Mr. Arthur Whiting and assisting artists...
...them, the British have undertaken a remodelling of their school system, and out of a sorely depleted treasury have voted eighty millions to begin on. Our Congress will shortly be considering a bill which proposes to make a national problem of our public schools, which have hitherto been a state and local issue; according to the bill there shall be a national department of education, presided over by a secretary who shall have a seat in the President's Cabinet, and for the initial year of his administration have $100,000,000 to distribute among the states, largely in proportion...
...outside the ken of college men, students, graduates, and professors alike, for the reason that students have come to college very largely from private schools or endowed academies. It is only recently that Harvard has, been receiving fully half her Freshmen from the free public high schools. In the state universities and those where entrance is by certificate instead of by examination, the proportion of students from the free public schools is very much greater. The result is that these schools are rapidly becoming of much more interest to college men. But they have always been of very vital interest...
...Union are too well known to need elucidation, and it is necessary that some plan be devised for placing this institution in the place of honor in which it belongs. Construction is essential rather than destruction. It would be advisable, therefore, for us all to shake off our state of indifference and consider carefully issues and plans concerning this important problem of reconstruction...
...statesmen for many weeks. They are closer to the heart of things than most Americans, and it has long been plain to them that the world was not going back to the old conditions that prevailed before the war. Many of them have no personal sympathy with this new state of affairs or liking for the inexorable facts of the case. They would much prefer to have the world drop comfortably back into the ancient order of things and be satisfied to let well enough alone, but they realize that it cannot be, and they are not such fools...