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...municipal institutions--the College of the city of New York with nearly 15,000 students and Hunter College with more than 11,000 students. It has become a commonplace to speak of the drift from the country into the cities as indicating the close of the epoch of opportunity in American. But evidently in our great cities the road of opportunity is not being close to youth and energy and ambition. --N. Y. Evening Post...
Business efficiency and intellectual mediocrity are the guiding spirits of the modern educational institutions of America and the end of that, training is "dying in the harness" or a comfortable but an idle and empty old age. This change in ideals is the natural result of an epoch which places Production above Humanity; which strikes a strident note of movies, cheap Lingazines, jazz--anything to take the place of constructive thinking. Chicago's grand opera company is dying for lack of support; the centers of real culture, in the East are very small oases in a very Large desort. These...
...Workshop has been successful from its first inception; but with the announcement of its new policy, it has entered upon an even greater epoch in its career...
...fault of the college. After a well phrased statement of this lamentable situation, Mr. Colby wisely withdraws. Perhaps at this point he became aware of certain difficulties which escaped Mr. Chapin's observation: that if we are to lift the colleges we must first lift the epoch on which the colleges are superimposed; that the colleges are not poisoning education; that the colleges and education are poisoned together at the wells of modern civilization. For beneath all isolated mistakes lies the common ground of a sophisticated and second-rate age, an age critical but not creative, impulsive but not inspired...
...report of the President's second industrial conference marks an epoch. It is the first attempt on the part of a central representative authority in the United States to draw up a code of industrial relations. By asking for suggestions from the country, the conference obtained the opinions of numbers of men and organizations who did not actually participate, so that the report may fairly be considered representative of the best that the country can contribute...