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Profiting by the experiences of the first venture the Floating University ought to develop into a permanent institution of much value in the world. Americans can no longer afford to be ignorant of the attitudes of other nations; we can no longer afford to dismiss international problems lightly as not concerning us. It is in this field of promoting international understanding and good will that the Floating University can perform its best senvice. To teach 500 college men and women what other people do, what they look like, how they think, and how they feel (this last is often most...
...particular time nor in this place. It does wish, however, to indicate the gratefulness with which "The Road to Xanadu" should be accepted by undergraduates of the university-undergraduates especially because they are the ones who are least likely to commend painstaking research and those who are quickest to dismiss anything scenting of long labor as being pedantical and therefore unworthy of enthuslastic praise. Here is a book which had its origin among dusty shelves but which by virtue of a creative mind, tuned to analysis, has been transformed into something very remote from barren bookishness. The favor...
...Hammonds did not suggest the appointment of her husband as state health commissioner, nor has she suggested other appointments, not first recommended by men supposed to be friends of clean government. The resolution [to dismiss Mrs. Hammonds] was introduced by a Senator whose fondest hope is the destruction of the Governor. Only three votes were mustered on the resolution demanding Mrs. Hammonds' dismissal. Then the sensible Senate voted to expunge the ridiculous resolution from the records. Mr. Johnson has many faults, among them a lodge-room belief in the honesty and decency of men. He is learning politics rapidly...
...relation to what the world thinks and does now and may think and do in the future. The research which absorbed his life, the obsession with hypothesis and demonstration that robbed him of everything but the passion for work, exploded the dream of Genesis so that we now dismiss it as folklore or, more mincingly, as allegory. God, Heaven and Hell were stripped of reality and are now only bloodless metaphysical abstractions to very orthodox people. Whether the Darwinian form of biological theory is ever fully demonstrated or not, says Mr. Bradford, never again will special and immutable creation...
...figure of the past remains- Louisa May Alcott (1832-88). Yearly her books are issued; this autumn, in five editions.† Her upright heroines still curtsey at balls, have jolly sledding parties, converse soberly on morals, dismiss wayward suitors, love their families before themselves, suffer sorrow in pious silence...