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" ... less misery among the poor, less ignorance in the schools, less bigotry in the temple, less suffering in the hospital, less fraud in business, less folly in politics... "
The Michigan Alumnus - Page 237
1908
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Recent History of the United States

Frederic Logan Paxson - United States - 1911 - 648 pages
...it means a wish for less misery among the poor, less ignorance in schools, less bigotry in religion, less suffering in the hospital, less fraud in business, less folly in politics ; it means more love of art, more lessons from history, more security in property, more health in cities, more virtue...
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Bulletin, Issues 1-7

United States. Office of Education - Education - 1939 - 938 pages
...forces. The significance of university activity lay in a reaching out for a better state of society, less bigotry in the temple, less suffering in the...hospital, less fraud in business, less folly in politics, more intelligence, more happiness, more religion. We must draw upon young men for the performance of...
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Higher Education as a Moral Enterprise

Edward LeRoy Long Jr. - Religion - 1992 - 250 pages
...expressed the hope that university reform should "make for less misery among the poor, less ignorance in schools, less bigotry in the temple, less suffering...the hospital, less fraud in business, less folly in politics."1 To hope for such benefits from the educational process is to lay a considerable burden...
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Higher Education in Transition: A History of American Colleges and Universities

John Seiler Brubacher, Willis Rudy - Education - 1997 - 582 pages
...expressed the hope that university reform would make "for less misery among the poor, less ignorance in schools, less bigotry in the temple, less suffering...less fraud in business, less folly in politics."" In order to develop the kind of high-quality university that was desired, it was soon realized that...
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Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society Through Service Learning

Maureen E. Kenny, Lou Anna K. Simon, Karen Kiley-Brabeck, Richard M. Lerner - Social Science - 2001 - 472 pages
...inaugurated as the president of Johns Hopkins, he called upon institutions of higher education to "make for less misery among the poor, less ignorance in...suffering in the hospital, less fraud in business, [and] less folly in politics" (Long, 1992, p. 123). The purposes of the university, by the turn of...
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Ball State University: An Interpretive History

Anthony O. Edmonds, E. Bruce Geelhoed - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 394 pages
...emphasis on both pure and applied research, would lead to "less misery among the poor, less ignorance in schools, less bigotry in the temple, less suffering...the hospital, less fraud in business, less folly in politics.'"1 The fullest working out of this vision came in Wisconsin, where under the sobriquet "the...
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Mount Vernon Place

Bill Wierzalis, John P. Koontz - History - 2006 - 132 pages
...Hopkins University, Oilman delineated an ambitious program for American education. Success would mean "less misery among the poor, less ignorance in the...less fraud in business, less folly in politics." It was a more hopeful time, perhaps. (Courtesy of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.) Laurence H. Fowler took...
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Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice

Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers - Education - 2006 - 218 pages
...Hopkins University expressed the public mission of higher education well: The university should "make for less misery among the poor, less ignorance in...the hospital, less fraud in business, less folly in politics."21 Today, a growing community of scholars and policymakers is calling for an "engaged university"...
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Higher Education and Civic Engagement: International Perspectives

Lorraine McIlrath, Iain MacLabhrainn - Business & Economics - 2007 - 240 pages
...Hopkins University, Daniel Coit Oilman described the burgeoning of higher education as the embodiment of a wish for 'less misery among the poor, less ignorance...less bigotry in the temple, less suffering in the hospitals, less fraud in business, less folly in polities'. Over the past several decades, however,...
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