Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the thought, enthusiasm, and money which has been expended in late years in reforming, if not wholly remodeling institutions of higher learning, there has become ever more apparent, the fact that the gap between the universities and the secondary schools not only has by no means been bridged, but rather is increasingly widening. Such must, indeed, inevitably be the case, the colleges advancing rapidly along the lines both of greatly diversifying their curricula and at the same time emphasizing specialization, the schools remaining essentially stationary both in courses of study offered, and in the attitude taken to them...
...certain mystery surrounds the present work which is being done. Authorative information is not available in University circles. It is thought that the survey has a direct connection with the House Plan building program, but nothing definite in this direction could be learned...
...help knowing the non-existence of Sally Calhoun and Matilda Cameron. Sarah Morrison, therefore, would hardly have allowed her husband, Frederick Hirth, the Union soldier, when the two friends, as alleged, gave him the documents, to accept them as genuine. Neither would she, after her husband's death, have thought them worth treasuring until her own death, nor would she have had any interest in passing them on her niece, the mother of Miss Minor, as genuine documents. Therefore, unless the earlier existence of the documents can be clearly proved, the only two people whom we need consider as their...
...help knowing the non-existence of Sally Calhoun and Matilda Cameron. Sarah Morrison, therefore, would hardly have allowed her husband, Frederick Hirth, the Union soldier, when the two friends, as alleged, gave him the documents, to accept them as genuine. Neither would she, after her husband's death, have thought them worth treasuring until her own death, nor would she have had any interest in passing them on her niece, the mother of Miss Minor, as genuine documents. Therefore, unless the earlier existence of the documents can be clearly proved, the only two people whom we need consider as their...
...many years ago in U. S. industry that business was thought of largely in terms of great basic commodities. Iron, steel, leather, lumber, copper, flour-these and similar staples constituted almost the entire structure of U. S. industry. That they still remain the backbone, the foundation, of industry is undeniable. Yet many of today's most successful industrial enterprises, remarkable both in their size and in their earnings, belong to the nonessential classifications...