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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no common ground between the Wilson theories of government and the Lenine theories, between the Wilson kind of peace and the Lenine kind of peace. There can be no compromise between them, and soon or late even the Bourbons will have to make the choice that M. Loriot presented to the French Socialists. They will have to take Wilson or Lenine, because it so happens that Wilson and Lenine embody the great issue that civilization must meet and determine. NEW YORK WORLD
...very fond of music. Although he had never had formal instruction, he had made himself a skilled pianist. His appreciation of music was extraordinary, and he had even essayed original composition...
...stalwart blow against a pernicious fallacy. Editorial Honoris Causa No. 2 depressed me, for it is no way true that "success in life is based upon detailed study of facts," at least for those few who do not wish to become Berlin statisticians. It is if possible even more false that universities have any such raison d'etre. Instructors who think so mistake the proper means of teaching us "how to think and to find out things for themselves." To paraphrase Dr. Lake further: "it is not how much we are taught, but rather how readily we attain the faculty...
...true that in the history books, and perhaps even in our own lives, the present will mark the beginning of a new chapter. But the type of mind that will overcome the problems of mankind in this new chapter, will be the same type that has done so in the past--the trained mind. And by that I mean particularly the broad, cultivated mind that is peculiarly the product of the college of today. This is the 'lesson' that is learned at universities such as Harvard, and it need never be re-learned...
...Classics--or the teachers of them, for the Classics themselves are impregnable--which we seem to remember in ante-bellum days? Yet the crisp editorials attest the power to produce the essay. A typical one, on the S. A. T. C., if rather one-sided and possibly even unfair, rigorously expresses what most of us think about the relation between College and the Government; and the reverent and discerning words of the editors on Theodore Roosevelt recall his connection, while in College, with the Advocate...