Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...take another period of our national life--that which came down to the Civil War. You will find volumes--libraries of dissension touching its causes and development. The cannon shot at Sumter blew away all but the idealism. It was after that high exhibition of idealism in our Civil War that those who saw in it only a war of rebellion saw also an opportunity for the exploitation of the commercial advantages offered by the succeeding conditions. Small wonder that other nations became established in their conviction that we were a commercial and soulless people worshipping the dollar and given...
...fame and then down to failure, such condensation is not possible. Any one of the characters of whom Mr. Ellis tells deserves a novel at least. For it must be remembered that the author only writes of those failures who have at first been successes--no humble persons find a place in his volume. To tell the story of de Lesseps, the great Frenchman who dug the Suez Canal but was branded a failure by Mr. Ellis because in his old age he was not so successful in his attempt to construct the Panama Canal, in a little less than...
...graphophone that he would be willing to send to this boy or sell to me. Also, some of the boys may have spare records that they might be glad to donate for this purpose, and I should be very glad to send the machine and the records if you find anyone who would like to help in this very worthy cause...
...these days of extremes it is very rare that one finds a same and dependable mean. With Bolshevic rantings, over-all campaigns, and peace treaty excesses it sometimes seems as if the country, or at least the oratorical representatives of it, have gone made. Out of the mess of conflicting advices as to the best way to tackle the elusive H. C. L., the dazed consumer is rarely able to find any theory substantial...
This conception of Harvard as a great center of learning where the leaders of the nation--scientific, industrial and political--may at any time find valuable assistance from trained men, is at once pleasing, and appealing to the imagination. The Law School, the Medical School and the Business School all hold such a position now. To extend this policy to other departments in the same way that it has been applied in the Department of Economics would make Harvard a leader and an authority in every branch of learning, a center where those who wish scientific application of knowledge...