Word: visioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main educational ideas of the last half-century. His school became extraordinarily prosperous and had a five-year waiting list. But he never lost the goal of preparing his boys for citizenship in the great world. The center of Oundle was a sort of museum?" the Temple of Vision"?which Sanderson planned, but did not complete, before he died. Charts, exhibits, putting before the opening minds of boys the romance of evolution in life, society, industry, science, art, were to be on its walls. All the teaching of history, geography, literature was planned in relation to the "Temple...
President Coolidge issued a proclamation today calling for observance of the week beginning Nov. 18 as National Education Week. . . . "From its earliest beginnings," the proclamation says, "America has been devoted to the cause of education. . . . We have observed the evidences of a broadening vision of the whole educational system. This has included a recognition that education must not end with the period of school attendance, but must be given every encouragement thereafter. To this end the night schools of the cities, the moonlight schools of the southern Appalachian countries, the extension work of the colleges and universities, the provision...
...rashly threw over; but if he is out for trouble it has been a great success and in the future it will be an even greater triumph for his statesmanship. The permanent garrison in the Ruhr has possibilities of mischief which it does not require any special vision to foresee...
...practical and successful finance were quite different than those demanded at the present time. The former period was one of inevitable consolidations and mergers in both the railroad and industrial fields; the times in which the former J. P. Morgan proved preeminent called for dominant willpower, great audacity of vision and action. Great personalities in finance and in business arose because individual leadership was imperative...
...Catherine gave him for the development of southern Russia, took the Empress on a long trip through the country, showing her model villages and happy, singing populations. While the Empress was resting at chateaux along the road. Prince Potemkin had the villages moved so she was surrounded with a vision of prosperity. When the Tsarina discovered the fraud, years later, she jailed Prince Potemkin, afterwards executing...