Word: remotest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This article, purporting to be "by" me and yet purporting to be an interview with me, is in fact the grossly distorted report of an interview. In this interview I neither stated, nor intimated, nor had in mind any remotest criticism of Harvard nor yet of any other college or university. I was speaking of a general conception of education, or formal training, which prevails in Europe as well as in America. This conception and its application have, I believe, a defect which I think is at least partly responsible for the odd fact that...
...from Harvard, have proceeded to "foul the nest". Such an Insinuation is not less than monstrous. I am about to leave Harvard entirely of my own motion, against the most cordial and friendly remonstrances of President Lowell and of my colleagues, and for reason many of which have no remotest connection with this or with any other institution of learning. I have few better friends anywhere than President Lowell and many of my colleagues here. On but few points of policy and on no point whatsoever of purpose and intent would my views differ from those which I know...
Most of those who talk nonchalantly about our entering the war do not seem to have the remotest realization of what that step would mean in every branch of our daily life. An open breach with the Central Powers would almost certainly be followed by a call for the mobilization of a half-million men. The response is not doubtful; twice that number could probably be enlisted within a very short time. But the sudden withdrawal of so large a body from the productive activities of the country would almost surely upset our whole economic organization, all the more...
...special blanks which all must fill out are simply to insure the entire University against a possible case coming from the outside. It is a precautionary measure which will inconvenience none, and will exclude the remotest chance of infection. To render the measure of any value, it is of the greatest importance that each man give exactly and correctly the information that is required. Otherwise the blanks will have the value of waste paper, and a necessary precaution against a serious epidemic will fall to have been taken...
...served for 24 years as an Overseer of the American University.) "In Oxford, man walks, talks and has his being in an atmosphere of scholasticism. The old classical traditions are there still preserved. Do I expect a revival of those traditions in our American colleges? There is not the remotest probability of it. For 50 years the tendency in the United States has been steadily the other...