Word: train
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Copley-Plaza Hotel, the route being through Summer, Winter, Park, Beacon, Charles, Boylston, Arlington, Commonwealth Ave., and Dartmouth streets. After luncheon in the Copley Plaza at 1, the President will proceed to Mechanics Hall, where he will make his only Boston speech at 2.30. Two hours later a special train will carry the party from the South Station on its way to Washington...
...same level, take the L. I. R. R. train to Nostrand avenue (the first stop out,--three minutes from Atlantic avenue...
Such a program strikes to the very heart of all education and opens the way to the much contended question: What should the college seek to accomplish? Should it train the individual in special attainment or should it cultivate that elasticity of mind and broadness of outlook which distinguish the student from the artisan? In President Lowell's understanding, the development of the mind as a whole is its object, a mind sympathetic and without prejudice, which from its long practice in jumping intellectual hurdles will better adjust itself to the changing needs of the time and more easily follow...
...arriving at the end of their college days, how many men have found themselves lonely, unknown to their classmates! How many, in looking back over their college career, have recognized their mistakes too late. General Johnston once exclaimed, when he had missed a train, "I ran fast enough but I didn't start soon enough...
...ready with cut and dried schemes of international organization, in which Costa Rica and England are equally represented, or in which the International Army drills constantly at the Hague, understand neither the spirit nor the necessity of the time. The vital thing, at the moment, is to train men, and particularly statesmen, to the realization that conference is a better method than war for the settlement of disputes. International Government is bound to grow slowly and to encounter every degree of hesitation and scepticism. The League of Nations at the present time means nothing more than the admission that there...