Word: uplift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...take themselves very seriously; they are not out to reconstruct either literature or life. Their work is the more acceptable. It is really a relief to find a college "literary" paper, which is content with being readable, lively, and light. Those of us who feel the need of "uplift" can afford to wait for Billy Sunday
...modification, the view of the laissezfaire school that the State has little or nothing to do with economics, and is weak and likely to remain so. When he asserts in the present work that we are slowly coming to recognize that the State is a great agent for social uplift and that its officials need more freedom of action, less letters in action, he opens the gate for considering every proposition on its own merits and not rejecting it simply because it is in conflict with a cast-off doctrine of the functions of the State--a State which...
...then again, was the drawing meant to express humor? Ah, there is a point to consider! If the author remembers Life's "The Glorious Fourth," which perhaps he never saw, he recalls the deep moral uplift of the picture...
...groups will use, as a text-book, "The Uplift of China," by Arthur H. Smith. The classes will meet once a week, beginning the first week after the mind-year period and continuing for nine weeks. Upperclassmen who wish to attend the groups should leave their names at Phillips Brooks House with one of the graduate secretaries...
President Lowell, the speaker of the evening, pointed out that all colleges were but a means to an end; namely, the uplift of the nation and of mankind. Friendship among them is growing as they realize the unity of their task. The best university is that which strives to correct its faults and this the public will in the end appreciate...