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...contemplation of present problems in their relation to the aspects of an older civilization. Men cannot through study erect a formula for the satisfactory life any more than he can add a cubit's length to his height by taking thought. Education, if it is to mean anything, must equip the student with a foundation upon which he can build the edifice of his life. This can only be accomplished by a sound, careful study of a few facts, an analysis of certain principles. It cannot be gained by a journey, which must perforce be cursory, through the byways...
...just returned from two years residence in Europe, mostly in Germany and France, has had many editorial connections, including an editorship of Collier's for nearly 10 years and of Harper's weekly for three years. His editorial experience and his subsequent keen interest in American politics equip him to speak with authority and penetration on this topic...
During the present depression hordes of good students have applied for high-school positions. If school boards were capable of selecting wisely, they might equip their institutions with young men who, though suffering from the defects of American university methods have the ability to raise the intellectual level of secondary teaching. But, unfortunately, pull or a "smooth line" are likely to determine the selection of applicants in many places, and the majority of male teachers will continue for a while to be lazy, dull, and conservative...
...proposed to appropriate $250,000,000 for direct unemployment relief whereas Senator Wagner of New York called for a two billion dollar bond issue for public works. Senator Kean of New Jersey would turn Muscle Shoals over to Alabama and Tennessee. A bill by Senator Dill of Washington would equip the Senate chamber for radio broadcasting...
...youth, with their strength and comparative freedom, the situation is a challenge to their understanding, their sacrifice and their elate effort to equip themselves for a higher intellectual level of existence, whatever the economic conditions. Dean Gauss in The Princeton Alumni Weekly, speaking of the great majority of college students, says that they are "cheerful and happy," and that, "unlike their elders, they do not everlastingly talk about the depression." They hope that "things will go back"; but whatever happens, they are not going back to the senseless way in which many of them lived in prosperous days. It cannot...