Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lives of great men is comprehended in the sum of the two terms vision plus valor. It is the vision which is not so myopic as to be confined to one narrow channel of existence, but which has the power to view life as a whole and to interpret aright the rights and duties of human beings one toward another; it is the vision which is not so steeped in the lore of the past that it is blinded to the great movements and tendencies which are the engrossing problems of the present; it is, finally, the vision which sees...
...sons of Harvard in the last forty years have left so high or so enduring a monument of literary work in many fields. Roosevelt was the living illustration of what used rather weakly to be called "the scholar in politics". He dignified learning by showing to the whole country that a man of education, a man of letters, might nevertheless be a very good fellow, a delightful host, a crack companion in the mountains, a swift counsellor in public affairs, an administrator who went at his ends like an arrow to the quarry...
...entitled to senior rank in an institution of this kind at the beginning of the academic year 1918-1919, and who for six months have been in the military or naval service of the United States or one of the Allies or in civilian war work which occupied their whole time. Such men must present certificates of their college work and proper evidence of discharge from Government service or civilian war work...
These are only two of the many requirements that must be met. The returning undergraduate will be more mature, more intelligent, and more whole-hearted in what he demands. It is the University's opportunity to utilize his enthusiasm, to absorb his interest so completely that the closing years of his training at Cambridge may be turned to good account...
...Roosevelt, ever vigorous and logical, threw the whole-weight of his passionate personality and far-reaching fame into the scale for righteousness. From the first, his fervid and uncompromising loyalty to Allied principles, finding expression in lucid eloquence, has been like a furnace keeping the nation in an heroic glow of patriotic exaltation...