Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...This essay deals not so much with culture as with the basis for culture that can be laid by a college or university, for culture, like all education, must continue through life. All we can do as teachers is to lay the best foundation for it that we can, and the upshot of the argument here presented is comprised in the old adage that the true basis for culture is to know a little of everything and everything of something. While we may admit that this is the object to be sought, sharp differences of opinion exist, and will remain...
...scattered grumblers; indeed, anyone who has watched carefully the practical working out of the elective system must have been similarly impressed, and here in our own university such prominent thinkers on educational topics as Dean Briggs (in his "College Life") and Professor Muensterberg (in his excellent essay, "School Reform," and elsewhere) have written against allowing education to proceed "along the lines of least resistance...
...Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration offers its annual prize of $100 for the best essay on "International Arbitration" by an undergraduate man student of any college or university in the United States or Canada. The donor of the prize is C. P. Pugsley '09. The judges will be John Bassett Moore, LL.D., Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University; Rear Admiral French E. Chadwick, United States Navy, retired; William I. Hull, Ph.D., Professor of History and International Relations, Swarthmore College...
...Each essay should bear a nom de plume or arbitrary sign which should be included in an accompanying letter giving the writer's real name, college, class and home address. Both letter and essay should reach H. C. Phillips, Secretary Lake Mohonk Conference (address, until December 1, 1915, Mohonk Lake, N. Y.; December 1, 1915, to April 1, 1916, 3531 Fourteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.), not later than March 15, 1916. Essays should be mailed flat (not rolled...
...Mitchell also contributes an essay. "Montaigne and the Modern Age" is a dignified defence of the spirit of scepticism. Cynicism and scepticism figure in this issue of the Monthly College men seem at times to fear sentiment and as a result they are apt to plunge to the other extreme. But Mr. Mitchell's essay is not of this type. His arguments and ideas are thoroughly sincere and well worked out in a spirit of toleration much needed in these troublous times...