Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss which Harvard suffers by the retirement of LeBaron Russell Briggs can be estimated only by his extraordinary record of service and achievement. His has been a personal guidance; he has given his students vision, and he has sent them out on the path of life inspired by a tradition which they could not quite define, but which has been to them a very real and living force...
...mass education and general liberal training. Education by its very nature is an individual rather than a mass achievement. The aim in future collegiate education should not be the wholesale education of the masses irregardless of their aptitude, but should be the stimulation and cultivation of men with intellectual vision and originality...
...must ally ourselves with American Youth; we must hold out to the young people of America a program which is bright, entertaining, full of hope, promise, and vision. . ." It sounds like another Call-To-Action from professor Dewey's Youth a Movement factory, or perhaps it is the National Student's League gone suddenly articulate. But it comes from Mrs. Magna in Washington, and unless you know Mrs. Magna and what she represents you will be utterly taken in. It does sound like a call to revolution but it cannot be, coming as it does from the President General...
...Allen. Finally, an interesting comparison of Daumier and Gavarni is afforded by the juxtaposition of similar compositions. In this way the visitor is shown in dramatic fashion the similarities and the characteristics of the two leading journalistic artists; the general point of view of the period and the specific vision of the artist...
...woman and a realist, not much of a churchwoman, but Robert was a fiery Christian who wanted to make the whole congregation over into decent folk. It took a lot to down him, but gradually he learned that Segget was there to stay. Then he had a vision and turned otherworldly. Chris liked him better in his old role. But when he got up from a sick bed to preach his last sermon she recognized him again. They were friends...