Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is best in our civilization? Our scientific knowledge surpasses that of other nations; let us share it with them and lift them out of ignorance and ill-health into fuller and freer lives. The story of the men and women who have given, not their money, but their lives, to the task of founding schools and curing the sick in foreign lands was repeated with new fascination. Dozens of doctors, teachers, and agricultural workers came to inspire with their presence the new generation of collegians. But the best thing in our civilization, said the leaders of the convention...
...Your educational system is the marvel of the world. The American university is far superior to anything we have in Japan, and for that reason we are trying to model our institutions on the same plan as yours. Here you have plenty of money to house your students and to give them adequate facilities for study, such as libraries and lecture rooms, but in Japan we have always been greatly handicapped. When Japan attains the heights in education that America has reached, then we shall feel that we have truly learned perhaps the greatest lesson that you have to teach...