The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views
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As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
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Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10The close of the Frontier
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. But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
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it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
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mastering the economic forces of the nation
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The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy, Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common man
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"the State University and the public school system which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer."
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"general system of education ascending in regular gradations from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all," expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian democracy.
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propaganda to induce students to continue
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The times call for educated leaders.
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The test tube and the microscope are needed rather than ax and rifle in this new ideal of conquest
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It is hardly too much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled progress in economic and social legislation and administration lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
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able to think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
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At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the expert.
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That they may perform their work they must be left free, as the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of investigation, they seek new horizons.
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Thus it is the function of the university to reveal to the individual the mystery and the glory of life as a whole