Word: visioning
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...chosen this year to represent American universities, as holders of the Rhodes scholarships should take to Oxford with them qualities which few have possessed in the past. Cecil Rhodes was a man of action and of vision and the spirit which led him to the Dark Continent and which enabled him to create the British Empire in Africa is the spirit which he would have liked to see embodied in those who should hold his scholarships at Oxford...
...world. The criticism of college and college men has often been that they form a community apart, sufficient unto itself; that they hold themselves aloof from problems of the day and only concern themselves with these theoretically and rather superficially. Hence the college graduate has not always the broad vision and understanding that might be expected...
Proposition 1 is essentially the view of those who put President Wilson's personal pride before the welfare of the country and the world. Proposition 3 summarizes, in the same way, the narrow political vision of Senator Lodge and his associates. Proposition 2, if adopted, would mean that the United States with draws from the Society of nations and throws away all chance of paying dividends on the capital in men and ideals she invested...
...There is one great advantage in such a form of training which, to my mind, is overlooked by most people. The military standpoint monopolizes the field of vision. They fail to perceive the fact that through this system of training the Government would come into contact with men of every class in the country. And to the boys who have no opportunity for education, to the mountaineers of Kentucky and Tennessee, a chance would be given. In almost no other way can the men in the back country of those states and others ever receive any advancement. For six months...
...vision breaks for I've passed...