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...demand for practical education has developed. Princeton's project is to bring theory and reality into conjunction by dealing with such problems as the collection of international debts, American foreign trade expansion, international tariff, and the need of a world-wide system of currency. Such a proposition lends impetus to the already popular theory of solving world problems through the medium of economics in that it proposes to educate many young men to make practical use of the theories of international business...
...ideal of international cooperation. A prime requisite of this is a comprehension of the other fellow's point of view. Such educational methods as exchange professorships and international fellowships are contributory factors whose value was recognized by Cecil Rhodes. The general success of his plan has given impetus to similar projects. Harvard has done much in this way in the past few years, and the Associated Harvard Clubs are to be congratulated in continuing the good work at this particularly timely moment...
Acknowledging the full legitimacy of the headline appeal, one may yet question the happiness of the selection that gave it birth. The growing impetus of the sensationalist movement has reached its logical goal. There are many who while condemning the course taken by what had become inevitable action, still regret the policy which has given that action its excuse...
Having surveyed this experiment calmly, it can be seen that its radicalism is not as extreme as the first reports seemed to signify; and perhaps its lack of sheer radicalism will prove to be the most valuable element in giving it impetus and in sustaining it until its adaption to the present educational conditions has been completed. The trend has been unmistakably in the direction of splitting large educational bodies into smaller, more homogeneous groups; but the academic world is at present extremely leery, and rightfully so, of any attempt to graft the English system in force at Oxford...
Spokesmen Hughes and Borah were somewhat impeded in the East, towards the finish, by the popular impetus of Governor Smith's homeland campaigning and by the alertness of the Brown Derby's ablest assistant, the New York World. Editorial Writer Walter Lippmann and Governor Smith managed to draw both the Messrs. Hughes and Borah into side-arguments and self-explanations. Mr. Hughes was nettled to such an extent that he talked about "mudslingers," wisecrack artists" and "calumny...