Word: whole
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sanction of the league should be not alone the combined military power of the whole world used as an instrument of repression but also the world control of economic resources...
...other hand if we do not believe in repression and yet cannot remain indifferent to the starvation of millions, the senseless strife of whole peoples, there is still a course open to us. We could send a force capable of putting a stop to all bloodshed and of restoring order, thus allowing the economic resources to reorganize and facilitating the shipment of food. Then, when all was quiet, we would support whatever government or governments in the several parts of Russia could find the backing of the people. Such governments would in time stand or fall on their own ability...
...issue could not be more clearly or more felicitously expressed. It is an issue that does not confront the French Socialists alone. It confronts all Europe. It confronts the whole civilized world. From the moment the armistice was signed it became the dominant political question for the Peace Conference to answer. The irrepressible conflict of peace is between democracy and--Bolshevism. Is Wilson to triumph, or Lenine...
...life work, is of value only to the man who has a particular genius for a certain profession. Such men are few, The majority of undergraduates are in college for the very purpose of discovering for what work they are fitted, Bravery's man in contact with the whole field of learning. Thus by a process" of alimination he can discover for what he is best adapted. When this is done, the plan of "Concentration" centers his studies in this field. Yale's plan does away with this function of the college by assuming a man's life work...
...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 the path of truth through the labyrinth of ignorance and bewilderment. The mind is to be trained...