Word: take
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...better body of advisers than the group that has been selected. A proof of the superior ability and intellectual farsightedness of our college professors has been demonstrated by the appointment of twenty-three experts on international affairs. All of these men are members of college faculties and we take especial pride in the fact that four of the twenty-three are from Harvard...
...return to College from an outside branch of the army or navy will probably get no academic credit for their work in the service. They will take up their work where they left it when they went into the service...
...need hardly state that the numerour Industrial concerns which the government has seen fit to take from private hands as a purely emergency measure, should be returned to their owners with due compensation. But in the case of various public service monopolies which are now operated by the government as a means of insuring perfect coordination in the management of a widespread system the question of restoration calls for somewhat more deliberation...
Desirable preparatory studies for men who wish to take up sanitary engineering or work related to public health are Mathematics and Mechanical Drawing, Chemistry, Physics, Zoology, Botany or Bacteriology, Government, Logic and Statistics. Well chosen college studies should form the foundation of one's preparation for this as for the other professions. The Harvard Medical School, the School of Public Health above mentioned, the reorganized Harvard School of Engineering and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offer exceptional advantages for specialized training. Students in the University ought to know of these opportunities for study and of the broad opportunities which exist...
...this there will be no new era. The new democracy should be an individualistic democracy. Individuals must therefore develop themselves. Supervised study does not produce students and to much government does not produce free citizens. Those who look back with regret that they were not permitted to take an active part in the great war, should not forget a lesson which this war has taught,--that it was the men who had best prepared themselves for service in times of peace who were found to be the most useful to their country in times...