Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world. Other nations are looking to it as they have hardly looked to another people before. It is no small thing to have power to influence the fate of all mankind upon the earth. With power comes opportunity and with opportunity responsibility. Our own right hand may yet teach us terrible things. Our power is likely to grow still greater in the world, and what do we want our nation to become? Shall we be satisfied with material wealth and comfort, or do we desire a higher destiny? In the ancient world there were two peoples, both commercial, both prosperous...
...number of changes to be made in the School. Earlier in the year the appointment of Professor Jean Jacques Haffner as Professor of Architectural Design had been announced. Professor Haffner, a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and holder of the much coveted Prix de Rome, commenced to teach here last January. He will take charge of the courses in design and will bring to Harvard the instruction, criticism, and inspiration that our students in the past have so often had to seek abroad. Professor Humphreys; himself a fellow student with Professor Haffner in Paris, will continue his work...
...between other members of the staffs in Harvard and Technology, insure a rivalry as friendly as it will be keen and helpful. No other city in the country has such an opportunity, and in fact, no other schools in this country have winners of the Prix de Rome to teach design...
...highways and by-ways to listen whether they will or not. But the modern doctor who a message will be heard and sustained outside academic walls. He may, if he looks too far ahead, suffer the martyr's fate. But, if he chooses the wiser method of teaching those things the multitude can hear, he may sustain himself without resort to the tender mercies of trustees, presidents; and bursars. His earnings may, indeed, be sufficient to lift him above the feelings of indigence so destructive to free thinking. He may avoid commencement oration, Phi Beta Kappa addresses, the conferring...
...turn to the more pleasant task of being constructive. For although college cannot teach a man many facts that he will remember; cannot prepare all men for their particular businesses or destinies in the world at large--be it rugs or wastebaskets, literature or religion; cannot teach men the actual means--the details of their lives' works; cannot offer a man tools; (in doing so it would no longer be a college, a unity;--but would become a series of unrelated and highly specialized schools,--a university); nevertheless college can give a man the methods by which he may employ...