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...Italy, Spain, and Russia, and all but destroyed it in those countries. The need for good government in Democratic nations is thus a sanction for universal education and, conversely, the success of democratic government in the more literate countries suggests that the educative efforts have not been entirely amiss...
...that page, entitled "Feng adroit," does not represent the stalwart person of the so-called Christian General Feng Yu-Hsiang. In fact, it is the picture of the late General Feng Kou-Chang, once the Vice President of the Republic of China. Perhaps it will not be far amiss for me to add here that, although bearing the same name, the "Christian" General is by no means a family relative of the late Vice President...
...great problems which universities are now trying to solve is how to make scholarship attractive. At the present moment, when the Phi Beta Kappa Society has drawn attention to itself by its recent election and its newly announced plans for a Sesquicentennial Celebration it may not be amiss to inquire into one of the reasons why scholarship is not more attractive to students than it actually...
Without a plan of life, people do get on. But it seems fair to say that they rarely amount to much. They drift or zigzag or run in circles. If, then, one needs a plan of life, it can hardly be amiss to devote some part of a college course to thinking...
...believe that when we speak of God most undergraduates think we mean a stern and forbidding elderly schoolmaster, extreme to mark what is done amiss; or else a grim king on a throne, who is more concerned with sins than with the people who commit them; or else (to our shame, this!) a celestial treasurer, an expert accountant, with a keen eye on the subscription list and collection plate. And when we speak of Christ they suppose we mean a listless, effeminate, oriental ascetic, or else the tyrannical Son of an imperious Father, sent to enforce His laws...