Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sure the mass of citizens in the United States mean well and I firmly believe they will always act well . . . ; but in some parts of the Union . . . . it is not easy to accomplish this . . . . when the inventors and abettors of pernicious measures use infinite more industry in disseminating the poison, than the well disposed part of the community to furnish the antidote...
Such a program strikes to the very heart of all education and opens the way to the much contended question: What should the college seek to accomplish? Should it train the individual in special attainment or should it cultivate that elasticity of mind and broadness of outlook which distinguish the student from the artisan? In President Lowell's understanding, the development of the mind as a whole is its object, a mind sympathetic and without prejudice, which from its long practice in jumping intellectual hurdles will better adjust itself to the changing needs of the time and more easily follow...
...cannot but wonder whether the proposed early specialization will give a college man that subtlety of mind and ease of adjustment which a wider distribution seeks to accomplish. We question whether a one-track mind would not result, an intellect which has but one interest and one accomplishment. What the University seeks to develop by its laissez faire policy is the versatility of mind which will embrace many fields, which eagerly gives ear to new opinions, which analyses, and holds dear its criterion of right and wrong...
...took over a great many tasks that were demanded of it and the fact that it did not accomplish every one in a manner to bring praise from everybody cannot be a very serious fault. Often the work of the organization is condemned because one secretary was taken as an example of the remainder of the men in France. When it is considered that there was supposed to be one secretary to every five hundred soldiers the impossibility of every man measuring up to the standard set by the soldiers is seen. Think of the films that have been showing...
...vote, but also a voice. Their aim was to avoid the possibility of the suppression by any group of any candidates for office who were desired by a considerable portion of a class and to insure the election of men representative of the entire class. In order to accomplish this, especially in the Senior class, the method of nomination by petition was established, to supplement the work of a carefully chosen nominating committee...