Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madison was in mild excitement, half the town accusing me of undermining the sanctity of family life. I, therefore, refused to approach delicate topics in an hysterical atmosphere unsuited to their discussion, but nonetheless stuck to my subject. The meeting was an enormous success...
Dean Wright had three means of approach to the students with whom he wished to talk. He delivered lectures at the chapel exercises, gave informal class room discussions, restricted generally to Economics Classes, and third held private and group interviews...
Apparently a truism, President Lowell's statement assumes the pale glimmer of the half-truth under critical inspection. The fashionable institutions, according to his speech, may survive for some time because of their reputations, but unless they approach the educational merits offered by their rivals, they will fall into grave danger. All of which sounds well, but means little. Being president of one of our foremost exclusive universities, Mr. Lowell is in a position to make such a statement without laying himself open to accusations of envy and pride, but we wonder if he has any very clear idea...
...opportunity for the enjoyment of such freedom which we would seek to maintain for you at Harvard. The times in which we live have got very far away from those in which wandering scholars exercised the leadership in learning. Few if any communities still exist in which the approach to learning has not been paved with biases of all sorts. The commonest of these biases seem to spring in modern times from the allegiance which is bound up with religion and nationality. But I believe that no communities exist where such biases count for less than in some...
...comes some one big crisis. Here is the story of mine. In 1909 I took over the janitorship, for such it was then called of this block of stores. Of course, the problem of residue is one of the regular ones of the janitorial career, but rarely does it approach the dimensions of a crisis, still more rarely of a Crisis. I had successfully disposed of the waste products of the carious tailoring establishments, smoke shops, and lunchrooms which occupy the building. Then suddenly it came...