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China's problems arise in part from the peculiarities developed by her age-long isolation, and are in part due to a retarded effort to adapt her civilization to Western ideas. Consequently the problems of China are constantly shifting. There seem to be at least four fundamental national necessities that are outstanding and abiding...
...word, China's problems consist in a right-about-face. She has treasured stability, she has worshipped the past just as we have cherished change and have set our faces to the golden future. She must not be expected to adopt the West; but she must adapt the West to her own uses...
...necessary, there are also many phases of politics that require men who have had a college training. But simply because a man has been to college, that does not mean that he is fitted to fulfill the requirements. He must have had a training that enables him to adapt himself to all kinds of circumstances and to all kinds of people. I have known men who have never seen the inside of a college building yet who are better educated than scores who have spent seven years at a university...
...practical details. Many heads of divisions, themselves not college men, have come to believe, partly through experience, that the college man cannot be counted upon to stick to his job, cannot be counted upon for accuracy with figures or other details, and above all that he is unwilling to adapt himself to minor details and routine work. Foreign Trade needs college men on the practical side. The practical details cannot be mastered from a book and it is hoped that the college men will realize that their college education is to be of benefit, not immediately upon graduation, but after...
...doubt but that the Emergency Committee will be swamped with applicants during these two days. It is necessary, however, first to realize the seriousness of this duty. We have been appealed to because the college man has the ability to adapt himself to a situation involving both intelligence and hard work. This is to be no picnic; the work will be dirty and exacting; the necessity of operating passenger trains on schedule will undoubtedly serve to make hours irregular. Those who find themselves in the service of the railroads on October 30 will discover that their duties will...