Word: enlightened
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reaching far beyond personal interests, must again show their force. The seriousness of the whole problem will then be thoroughly driven home to every circle of education. The world, taking the action of Harvard as a standard, will understand the colossal importance of properly remunerating those who would guide, enlighten, and inspire its young minds...
...possible for the bulk of our nation to gain first hand knowledge of other lands. Therefore, it is the duty of people of education to enlighten themselves sufficiently to be intelligent leaders. Many people have an unfortunate conception of England as the tyrants that fought us a hundred years ago, as a greedy race of commercial rivals, and as a cruel despotism that refuses to "free" India and Ireland...
...consideration of these irremediable basic circumstances it seems that the further encouragement of nationalism will only produce painfully unrealizable ambitions. The migrations of the past have decreed that these interspersed European races should live together. The practical solution of their friction is to democratize and enlighten the federative governments under which they must live, not to attempt to divide them...
Captain Cele is a graduate of Hampton Institute where he took courses in black-smithing, carpentry, agriculture and other useful arts, is well fitted to carry on the work of the Armstrong Institute, to enlighten the superstitious Zulus, and to teach, them to apply thought in the use of their hands...
...your columns to enlighten your readers in regard to the Pierian Sodality Orchestra trials? Every year there are many men in the University posessing sufficient musical ability who through ignorance or modesty fail to become candidates for the University Orchestra. To these men I should like to say that positions in the Orchestra are open to players of ordinary as well as superior ability, and that orchestral experience is not a necessary qualification. The Pierian offers a rare opportunity to develop latent powers, to become acquainted with orchestral methods, and to play both pieces of a purely popular character...