Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heroes, statesmen, scientists crowned with honors, are exalted by the lofty shafts of monuments. Even so on Cardiff Hill, at Hannibal, Mo., will be raised a shaft to crown the honors of the heroic gemini-Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn...
...just returned from Africa, President Roosevelt spoke at the Berry School, told how Miss Berry had gone to him at the White House to get introductions to philanthropists: "When Miss Berry turned up ... there were a good many statesmen in the room with her. I looked at the letter of introduction, then glanced at the pamphlet; then I saw Miss Berry at once, and when they tried to interrupt me, I said: 'Let them wait...
...real political function of our universities," says Mr. Glenn Frank in an article on the part of state universities in politics in the May Century Magazine, "is the training of a race of unofficial statesmen." While the knowledge of state government and its functions resides in the universities, the power to rule remains in the hands of practical politicians. Mr. Frank proposes "to drive knowledge and power abreast" by bringing learning into closer touch with the current of public life...
...Frank says, "a state must contrive to harness both the power of the government and the knowledge of the university, if it is to achieve 'the good life' for its citizens." The state university as a leader, can do much by training "unofficial statesmen", but the people who are the flesh and fibre of the state, can do much more by electing to public office men whose ears are open to the voice of learning...
...digestion of admirals, soda clerks, statesmen...