Word: serious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...going right. In an autocracy the people may rely upon their rulers for guidance if they happen to have reliable rulers, but in a republic they have no one to rely upon but them-selves. That furnishes a sufficient reason why the study of economics should interest all serious minded people at all times, and especially in a time like this...
...consists solely of incoherent statements and flashy phrases such as "clapped into a limousine" and "by dint of theatre parties and champagne", is amusing enough and well fit for the latest parody on the Harvard Magazine, even when we do not consider that the author meant it to be serious. It gives very good proof that the unintentional humor is the best...
When Harvard gets enough money, we should almost double our teaching staff. Our instructors would then be delivered from the drudgery of blue-pencilling copy-books, and have leisure for that serious work by which alone an university is made. Give them a chance to be human, and the undergraduate may find professors worthy of his friendship. Then when we have more money, we might equip our poverty stricken chairs with laboratories, theatres, libraries and all the other what-nois. Then, they tell us, their present progress would seem like marking time. Ask our men which they would rather have...
...commercial civilization. The thinker must be in vital touch with the magnificent display of energy precious souls term materialism. But high pay is no means to this end. It creates a barrier where we want a bridge. Salaries higher than a living-wage detach from life: only serious work and sacrifice pay in the end. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT...
...study international relationship without becoming a convert to the idea of a league. This is true. The importance of some of the international questions already decided by The Hague Court has been underestimated. Included among these are the right to fly the flag (Muscat Dhows case) and the very serious question between France and Germany relating to deserters at Casa Blanca. It is evident from some of the speeches in the Senate that there is lacking an adequate appreciation of the extent to which international co-operation for the settlement of disputes has gone...