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...Research in Pittsburgh last week rolled a strange new material. It looked and felt like a sheet of steel, but its surface did not shine like steel. It was a surface soft as felt. A casual observer would have guessed it was steel covered with felt. Dr. Alden William Coffman would have pointed out that a cross section showed no line of demarcation between felt and steel. Then Dr. Coffman, who developed it, would have explained that it was felt-coated steel, but that the felt was not merely a covering, was an integral part of the substance...
...Coffman Minnesota...
...Minnesota, to the effect that the future of American education, as well as of several other things, belongs to the western universities, strikes the cultured ear of the effect East somewhat harshly. Even when due allowance is made for local pride and sectional patriotism, the conviction remains that President Coffman has been guilty of exaggeration--excusable, perhaps, but still exaggeration...
President Coffman is quite right in pointing out that there is a difference in the types of higher learning cultivated in the East and in the West. The West, is young, vigorous, and intensely practical. Its literature has been enriched--though this has not yet been universally conceded--by the work of Masters, of Sandberg, of Anderson, whose young and engagingly pessimistic view of life has done much to stimulate modern American thought. Its education is of a more immediate turn. There is less of that deliberately pure scholarship which is found in the East, of that ripe appreciation...
Such existing differences are due wholly to the conditions of environment in which the educational system of the West has grown, and are not in any sence, as President Coffman seems to imply, the results of a successful execution of preconceived ideas. Nor from the fact of such differences can anyone argue a superiority of one variety of learning over another. To indicate points of variance is interesting, and possibly even valuable, but to prophesy therefrom a glowing future on the one hand, and an early and permanent dry rot on the other is to venture almost too far into...