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Phillips Brooks House has received from the Trustees of the Canton Christian College a call for teachers, temporary and permanent, for teaching in China. Instructors must possess a sound collegiate training, influence over boys and girls open to Christian teaching, interest in their social life and athletics, willingness to adapt themselves to new conditions, and energy for 20 hours' classroom work per week. Salary includes all travel and living expenses. Further information may be obtained from the Graduate Secretary, Phillips Brooks House...
...must cope with the problems of the future, and the college training teaches him to expect and to meet new situations. He is, moreover, better prepared for leadership than those who have not gone to college. This was clearly brought out by the ability of college men to adapt themselves to the duties of officers in the war. And, finally, a general education makes a man more stimulating and helpful in his friendship and better able to give advice in the light of a true perspective...
Snobbery, of course, is only an annoyance. So are bed-bugs and boils; but normal people will take great pains to avoid them. The animal's organs adapt themselves to its environment, and kingship stands for the environment that produced snobbery. Once developed, the organ outlives its causes. There is your vermiform appendix, for example. So snobbery will outlive kings. Probably we shall have our society columns for a good while. But snobbery is on the declining hand. --SATURDAY EVENING POST...
...special committees and constituent societies, whose work is presented in their respective reports. The question that invariably arises at the end of the year is whether the Brooks House has been as successful as usual; and if the test of success is to be found in the ability to adapt itself to meet new and constantly changing conditions and in the amount of good done by the organization, certainly the results are encouraging. Never before has the House itself been used by so many people and by so many organizations as during the period covered by this report...
...When the two civilizations of the East and West came into clash, the open-door policy was forced upon China. She suffered humiliations and defeats at the hands of the western invaders, and finally realized that she must strive to adapt herself to new conditions. A series of reforms were already in effect before the Manchu dynasty was overthrown. Of these, the educational policy underwent the most radical change. Western scientific courses were introduced, and the examinations on old classics were abolished. Today schools for new learning stand on the ground of the spacious examination halls...