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...environment is a factor of no less importance. I have not the slightest doubt but that America today is teeming with potential greatness, a goodly proportion of which will never come to fruition because of lack of opportunity. One of the soundest arguments of the Neo-Malthusians is that wide-spread opportunity can only be offered to developing manhood and womanhood in a nation unharassed by population difficulties. The second contention is simply false. It was disposed of by Havelock Ellis in a series of brilliant essays quite some time ago. And just recently Terman has shown that the thousand...
...teachers are not unmindful of the validity of such arguments, or of the wide-spread nature of the questions that have provoked them. There is scarcely a college executive or a college teacher today, who, would refuse the invitation of a body such as the National Student Federation to cooperate with you in the laying out of a program by students for study of the American college, and for the discovery of ways in which it can better meet the students of today. My chief criticism of the American college executive is that he does not sufficiently trust the students...
...opportunity to give an annual amount which in their minds will be the equivalent of the annual interest on the larger sum which they would like to feel themselves in a position to contribute some day. It has been a matter of genuine surprise to us to note the wide-spread interest on the part of the Harvard men of this section." Bergmann Richards '09. Vice-President, Western Division. Associated Harvard Clubs. Minneapolis
...years have, however, threatened to destroy the few remaining vestiges of this life. The rising tide of commercial prosperity in which all classes shared and the recent influx of speculating northerners suggested the possibility of this region becoming a veritable slough of Babbittry, rivaling even the Middle West in wide-spread vulgarity. Such a condition seemed imminent in the absence of an effective counteracting influence...
...writes weight into "the elements of human feeling and emotion". He cites the war hero presidents and places "Uncle Tom's Cabin" against the Dred Scott Decision. He delves moreover into the particular field of New England historians to characterize the Puritans. As he finds them, they were more wide-spread than is supposed, and their influence more glowingly complex...