Word: working
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Charybdis of Reactionary Americanization lies the only safe course the country can pursue, Radicalism disjoints, conservatism retards progress. The Americanism which most of us are prepared to support is not the monopoly of any political party; it is that element in all political parties which causes them to work--in so far as they do work--for the national benefit as they understand it. It is not learned entirely from books, nor can it all be put into words. Americanization has been defined as the "grafting of the best ideals of the new world onto the best ideals...
This combination is advised on the grounds that it is impossible to carry on the work successfully in both places since the income from the present endowment is far too small to meet the expenses. Thus it is planned to lower expenses by combining the two similar institutions within the same grounds. Another argument in favor of the change is the fact that a combination of the two would prevent duplication in the work hereafter as well as giving the Bussey students, all of whom remain for summer work, an opportunity to use the Garden at the time...
Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95, in speaking of the work of the American University of American soldiers established in France, expressed himself as feeling that this scheme of the government to fill in the gaps made in the education of so many young Americans because of the exigencies of the war, fulfilled its purpose, judging from the satisfaction expressed by the students themselves. "Certainly the attempt to make students out of soldiers was more successful than the attempt to make soldiers out of students as exemplified by the S. A. T. C.", he said. Professor Coolidge served in France...
...Saturday and Sunday, November 1 and 2, a conference of the Student Volunteer Union of Greater Boston will be held in the Gordon Bible College, 30 Evans Way, Boston. Representatives of the University and of many other institutions interested in student volunteer work will gather there to discuss various plans of constructive action. The meeting will be addressed by many men prominent in the missionary field, among whom are: R. P. Wilder, General Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, New York, H. C. Stuntz, resident Bishop of Nebraska; D. Brewer Eddy, Associate Secretary of the American Board...
...Thayer has recently come into prominence throughout the country by the publication of his book, "Theodore Roosevelt," last month. Leading biographical critics consider this work as the best life of Col. Roosevelt ever written. The author has been associated with the University for many years. In 1906 he was sent as a delegate from Harvard and the American History Association to the International History Congress at Milan, and from 1913 to 1919 he served as Overseer. The degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred upon him in 1913. Among his many works, the one perhaps most closely connected with...