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...play is by Owen Davis and was awarded the Pullizer prize for 1923. It shows admirably a certain side of the old, hidebound New England stock. But we refuse to recognize the mean and small souled characters as they are presented. There is another side that Mr. Davis has left off stage...
...measure, American universities have attempted to attain this end. Rhodes scholarships have facilitated an exchange of students with the great English universities; and special students are not rare. Exchange lecturers, who like Professor Feuillerat come to give special courses, help to dispel the prejudices of hidebound nationals. With the increasing frequency of-international debates and athletic meets, it is clear that all attempts to foster an international breadth of view do not emanate from college administrative offices, yet it is equally evident that there is no sharp realization of any such ideal by student bodies...
...yesterday. "There was at the time in the division a very decided sentiment against such a system. As a matter of fact the general examinations were only accepted on trial and not with any definite understanding that they were to become a permanent institution. The division however, is never hidebound and if good reasons can be shown in favor of the tutorial system as it now exists in the University and if sufficient reasons can be urged for its extension to out own division I see no reason why they should not be considered...
...ideal: Too often the self-styled "liberal" is as bigoted and impassioned, in his own way, as the "conservative" whom he so despises. Liberalism is not the opposite of Conservatism. It is rather, a separate and highly-to-be-desired state by itself. Yet today all but the most hidebound reactionaries call themselves "liberal" and exhibit their own particular little idiosyncrasies as proof of the fact. Consequently when the delegates gather here next week to form an intercollegiate Liberal Society, they will be laboring under the handicap of a decidedly ambiguous name. Nevertheless, such an intercollegiate organization is greatly...
...chief difficulty in discussing education lies in the fact that we are hidebound by tradition. The school world has not realized that the schoolboy of today is entirely a different being than the schoolboy of even fifteen years ago, and still we are trying to develop scholars by the method which our forefathers decided was best to produce the student...