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...many subjects rarely gets the vigorous training needed to acquire a firm grasp of any of them. The smatterer on leaving college is a smatterer. He has never learned anything thoroughly, and although he may do so later, his subsequent training will hardly relate backwards to illumine and deepen his knowledge of subjects that was superficial when he acquired it. If the best result is to be obtained, the thorough study of one subject must be contemporaneous with the diversified study of others, and radiate light into them...
...Cornell Conference on International Relations which begins today offers courses of lectures which should broaden and deepen the view of any man, pacifist or militarist, in regard to the most fundamental and far-reaching problems of our times. The predominant tone of the Conference will be anti-militarist; but Congressman Gardner and General Wood will be present to give their views in favor of preparedness. It is the duty of men of all shades of opinion to acquire the greatest possible insight into the ideas of the thinkers who are giving all their time and energy to working...
...extension of Christian activity in the University as shown by the number of men interested and engaged in the Bible-study movement cannot but deepen the quality of its religious life, and the conference this evening should make an opening for greater and more permanent results...
...educational epoch, not only at Harvard and in Massachusetts, but everywhere in the educational world; that his high character and keen insight and wise thought have stimulated and changed for the better collegiate, secondary, and elementary ideals and methods and have initiated an influence that will broaden and deepen as the years pass...
...loss of your son, is shared by the whole class. He was a man esteemed for his straight-forwardness, his strength of purpose, and his unfailing sincerity. Those who met him for the first time were impressed by his force of character, and closer acquaintance served only to deepen this impression. Not only the class but the entire University suffers deeply in losing from its ranks one whose past was so laudable, and whose future seemed so bright. For the class, RICHARD C. DORR. SPIER WHITAKER. GRENVILLE CLARK. RICHARD DERBY. GILBERT BETTMAN...