Word: uplifting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Added to this is the feeling, pretty common among members of the Faculty and among graduates, that the intellectual uplift in the professional schools is out of all proportion to that going on in the College. Seriously considered, there are few men in the College today who, if put to it, would not be able to fulfil the present requirements in three years. It is also true that the work absolutely necessary for a Harvard A.B. is by no means so advanced as that required in the English universities, and is made ridiculously easy by tutoring and printed notes...
...They say youth is the season of hope, ambition, and uplift--that the last word youth needs is an exhortation to be cheerful. Some of you here know, and I remember; that youth can be a season of great depression, despondencies, doubts, and waverings, the worse because they seem to be peculiar to ourselves and incommunicable to our fellows. There is a certain darkness into which the soul of the young man some time descends--a horror of desolation, abandonment, and realized worthlessness, which is one of the most real of the hells in which we are compelled to walk...
...concluding, Mr. Riis urged that college men should aid in this movement to uplift the masses in our large cities. It should be an essential part of the creed of all people, he said, that we are our 'brothers' keepers and are responsible for their lives and deeds, especially when we are cognizant of their need for help...
...study lasted only six weeks, in the summer. The School for Social Workers to be conducted jointly by Harvard University and Simmonds College will aim to give a more extended and systematic instruction in philanthropy for a few willing students who desire to do scientific work, and to uplift both themselves and others. It is planned to put the school on a high academic standard, to give its students a certain amount of technical training, under the direction of practical philanthropic workers, and a broad outlook over the whole field of social work. The school will open early next October...
...conditions of modern industry, the negative claims that the history of trade-unionism in the past twenty years has been advantageous to the working man and creditable to such labor leaders as John Mitchell and P. M. Arthur, who have given the chief years of their lives to the uplift of the laboring man, and, with him, the general material and moral condition of the whole people...