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Radical? It surpassed all expectations. There was no limit to its innovations. Under the inspiring genius of James Gamble Rogers, the new Yale library was designed to include: (L) A cathedral of the English decorated period. (2.) A group of Tudor pavilions, loosely connected. (3.) A cloister, (4.) A court with details of: a. An Italian Gothic or Spanish arcade. b. An Elizabethan house. (5.) A central book tower armored with extremely heavy masonry under Romanesque inspiration, pierced by Early English lancet windows. (6.) Interiors designed with elaborate vaulting, Tudor bosses, medieval roof-painting, and furniture of Jacobean influence...
Present-day college educators have provided the student with a pleasant array of physical comforts, have built for him a cloister and a hearth, have provided him with unprecedented athletic facilities. Now they only have to ask that he refuse to stifle. With respect to creating a zest for knowledge and, above all, a zest for life, they remain with their eighteenth century predecessors, waiting for the horse to drink of the living water...
...Senate with the damning of everyone except the good old Republican regulars. The farmers find in it no relief for their troubles. The heavy industrial flavor of the rate increases will shoot up the cost of living more than enough to offset the agricultural protection. Economists in the cloister are unanimous in condemning the increase at the present time. Even the business men whom the Boston Herald would have settle the tariff are opposed to the new measure. Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan, friends of the President and giants of industry, hit the bill as a dangerous blow...
After giving forth so much from the academic cloister it is pleasant retribution to find the scholar taking a lesson from the man of action. And in the present case it is not to be doubted that the lesson is a wise one which universities with numerous graduate schools would in time do well to follow...
...solve the problems is theirs now, the power to deal with present results of past reforms is theirs now. Would it be ethical, practical, modest or sensible for them to say. "We don't graduate from college for two months more" and in view of this probable development cloister themselves with half a dozen Elizabethan poets while the Senate chambers ring with the banalities of an age that has done its best and lost...