Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Faculty is beginning to show how easy it is to settle back into the old rut: will the undergraduate do the same, and, despite his huge lesson and the agonizing cry of the world, say "I am not of you"? The present hurrah for some of the old fleshpots points to weak assent, but there are, on the other hand, some indications that men are beginning to look over their wall. One of these is the Harvard Magazine, the second number of which has just appeared. At last, praise be, a single publication has ventured to invite to its columns...
...great war has taught us a lesson which we cannot afford to forget, and the only way we can profit by what we have learned is to have universal military training. Military service has awakened in our young men a great feeling of patriotism and service. It has given them confidence in themselves, and made them straight-forward, virile, and honest. I feel sure that the decrease in crime resulting from universal military service would more than cover the cost of training. If all our young men could have a year in the army, I believe that...
...have splendid opportunities, through the Harvard professors and students, to learn the available lesson--to make our life's achievements larger. We must open mindedly study to appreciate what is good in the customs and ideas of the American people. We are taught how to talk, how to write from left to right, and how to be in close touch with all phases of actual American life. The spirit of higher education, which enables us to see the social and moral activities of Harvard, finds response in our hearts. It shows us a type of education, different from that...
...three powers which will not allow a return of the world to pre-war channels: labor, Bolshevism, and Wilson. The constant attention focused upon labor during the war has brought out its full importance. Men are accustomed to look upon the individual as the unit. They have learned the lesson of concerted action. They have acquired a new point of view and are prepared to accept new ideas...
...that will overcome the problems of mankind in this new chapter, will be the same type that has done so in the past--the trained mind. And by that I mean particularly the broad, cultivated mind that is peculiarly the product of the college of today. This is the 'lesson' that is learned at universities such as Harvard, and it need never be re-learned...