Word: visioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enthusiastic idealism that is the first and most vital force in the social activity of the individual student. Whether or not this plan, if it is put into effect, will succeed, will depend in the same way that all such enterprises depend, on the vigor, and intelligence, and vision of those who come to administer it. Given these three prerequisites, it provides the machinery by which undergraduate social service may be made firm, effective, and enduring...
They are to race for the honor of their nations and the finest prize that the world offers. But ahead lies all the danger of the North and the terror of living burial in an unmarked frozen grave. They go to seek a land of vision, a continent that no one has yet beheld, peopled possibly, with an unknown race and covered with a strange vegetation...
...such a school. A word from the University is sufficient to set in motion a drive which would very quickly give us a fine experimental theatre where student actors should interpret the plays by student authors, an experimental theatre which would be a glorious testimony to the breadth of vision of Harvard University...
...stodgy and commonplace nomenclature, such as the epithet of Brown, Smith, or Jones, with appropriate initials. Lionel Hall has been particularly lucky in this way. It will always have about it the romantic tradition of the man for whom it was named, who in dying passed on his vision of Harvard...
...only college men in the Chemical Warfare Service except in the gas section. I refused enlisted men absolutely who had been in the Regular Army five years because he would have lacked the broadness of vision necessary in our branch of the service. The enlisted man would be better than the average sort of college graduates we had for about six months, but then the college man would pick up and pas him by the end of a year. I didn't expect the war to end in a year and it didn...