Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...university as large as Harvard, the student, even a confirmed Vagabond, finds it impossible to know by sight the greater number of the faculty even in his own department...
...bequest, not only to expand the Harvard faculty, but to make continuance with it more attractive to its present members, and particularly to those house residents who will be most closely in contact with students and whose high quality must be assured. Nothing could be more dismal than the sight of the far-flung Georgian halls of Harvard houses empty because men are not attracted to them by the caliber of their residents; and, whatever the idealistic views of the matter, nothing can guarantee, excellence in the staff of residents unless Harvard is willing to pay for excellent...
...considering the effects of education on the productiveness of the individual his address continues. "In our devotion to cultural education, the importance of which is not only conceded but emphasized, we often lose sight of the fact that it contributes to only one phase of the perfect man. No person can ideally be a good citizen unless he is equipped by nature and by training to make a living, and the more adequate that is, the better in many ways for his neighbors as well as for himself and his family. The ship of state can not move steadily...
...while "Plain Talk" is selling its extra editions and other periodicals are playing follow the lewder in the same field, Boston has lost sight of one essential fact. The mud that has been thrown at it could be hurled with equal and even more exactitude at the other metropolises of the East. It is absurd to say that Boston is the bawdiest of cities for it ranks only eighth in population. Unless "Plain Talk" can produce per capita statistics for indulgence in vice showing that five out of five in Boston deserve the scarlet letter, one should continue to believe...
...subsequent career begins like the dream of every oil prospector. With intuitions and talent for analysis so acute that he really believes it to be second sight, he makes millions. Simultaneously the other things that he has valued escape him. Leisure and its cultural by-products are first to go. His ruthlessness compels awe but defeats friendship-when the liquid, lovely costume of his wife is much admired by guests, he exclaims: "I made her buy it!" At length his boasted gift of prophecy fails and while the newsboys hawk the story of his downfall, his wife comes...