Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first thing he did was to put up the barriers, to step behind a shield of Presidential immunity from direct quotation. The gulf between his past and his present was staggering. He had made his career on the same plan as a young man, able but conservative, who goes into a bank, works hard, tries to be efficient, puts by, bit by bit, takes his annual raise and with reasonably good fortune rises eventually to an undistinguished executive post. Imagine such a man suddenly being thrust into high and rather frenzied finance. Such, largely, was Coolidge in politics...
When he was four months in office, he had to write his first message. Laboriously, painfully, he went over nearly every proposal which was before the country. He tried to master each. Believing, as a New Englander does, that a thing is either right or wrong, he did not attempt to dodge or straddle any question. Even the red hot Soldier Bonus he touched, briefly to be sure, in his own interest, making his statement merely...
...interest in his Senior year it never before. College for the first time begins to mean something to him in broad perspective. Perspective of any sort is a real accomplishment. Usually your young man has to wait until he gets out of college to begin to see the thing clear and to see it whole. Probably this is the aim of our educators, although it is sadly unwise. And so what boots it anyhow to have anticipated this intellectual robustness in his Senior year? He must suffer the division of tastes and tasks. The dream of mature planning...
...finances of the thing puzzle me, too. If the University cannot afford such a school, why could not Baker have been permitted to raise funds as he offered to do? But really there is no reason why 47 Workshop plays, produced in a college theater, would not become highly popular--and finance the school...
...tutors and undergraduates whom I have met. I hope that this letter may provoke some thought on this important matter, and to that end I quote from President Lowell: "This year every department has tutors and, although it requires additional work on the part of the students, the funny thing is they like it." Allen H. Gleason...