Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the solution lies along the lines suggested by Dean Mendell is debatable. Any distinction based on curricular differences bids fair to promote specialization of the most doubtful value. The lead in educational theory today is rather one toward elimination of such artificial boundaries as those that exist between the several arts and sciences. The division of an English university into "pass' students and "honor" students must recommend itself as more likely to fit the situation. Such a distinction could well be established on a basis like that of the tutorial system as it is found at Harvard. More logical...
...Europeans in China, but it will be unable to prevent the transformation of anti foreign feeling into anti-foreign action which will sweep every Westerner from the country if any act of war like the proposed bombardment of Cantonese positions is committed. No justification for such an, act now exists nor is it likely to exist in the future if the American government and its representatives keep level-headed...
...foundation of all national solidity, according to the great contralto is the happy home, and that can only exist if the man rules. Not only the children but the wife as well should look up to and revere the father in every household. American women are quite on a par with our men in Mme. Schumann-Heink's opinion, but they should do something practical with their time instead of wasting it as they do today...
...large enough and so selected as not to include merely the most popular undergraduates but a good proportion of the most capable--the two are not always combined. Such a body is, of course, as impossible as Plato's Republic ruled by philosopher kings. And if it should exist by some miracle, there would still have to be discovered a really vital use for it. But the human student craves a voice in his micropolity, and the Williams experiment, after all, gives him as effective a one as could be devised...
Fully equal now in height to the average pedestrian, stands the Cambridge policeman whose duty it is to guide the destinies of foot and vehicular traffic in Harvard Square. For, in unparallelled magnanimity and broadness of mind, those powers which exist in the Cambridge constabulary have produced a clean white enclosure and set it up opposite the Rotunda...