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...akin to yours comes to every man who, within the limits of his opportunities, has developed his capacities to the utmost, and today all recognize that the craftsman may be as big a success in his line as any in the professions...
President Murlin's proposal is that when a liberal arts college has reached an enrollment of 500 a new college unit ought to be organized, with a separate faculty and an independent dean. Perhaps is is something akin to the Oxford system which he had in mind, a group of separate colleges with the same general administration, yet each an entity within itself, having its-own faculty and buildings...
Thus if you are akin to those who seek a "moral" in poetry and must squeeze a "philosophy" out of essays, you can obtain very satisfactory doctrine for a true liberal in the present day. And his doctrine, as Samuel Johnson said of Dr. Blair's "is the best limited, the best expressed; there is the most warmth without fanaticism the most rational transport." VOLUMES CHOSEN FOR REVIEW IN THE CRIMSON'S CHRISTMAS BOOKSHELF December 18, 1920. OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS OF 1920. CLASS TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Fiction. Main Street. Sinclair Lewis. Harcourt. Travel. White Shadows in the South Seas. Frederick...
...That it is a grave blow to the allies because it shows the great ingratitude of the people toward the man who did so much for Greece. After all, what concern is it of England if the Greek people are ungrateful? Didn't the United States show something very akin to Greece's so-called "ungratefulness," and aren't we all, or perhaps nearly all, glad that we had the chance of being "ungrateful"? Why didn't England and France serve notice upon us that they wouldn't stand such ungratefulness? Perhaps Mr. Lloyd George will be kind enough...
...These cooperative students are regularly paid workingmen for half their third year in the Engineering School. While one is off in some machine shop, electrical department, or plant akin to his professional line, another is spending two months of intensive class-room work. When these eight or nine weeks are finished, they shift positions, the man who had been in Cambridge taking up the industrial life where his alternate left off while the latter returns to college and engages in theoretical work. The change back and forth eliminates the need for the long vacation and consequently the men are only...