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...semester of foreign study might operate with considerable success were the award made at the end of the student's Sophomore year to be held until the following mid-years. Profitable terms at many continental universities await the discerning student. Interesting contacts can be built up and an interplay of opinion produced which will go far toward creating an international attitude on the part of the American...
...education needed in the days before us is an education calculated to fit men to live together, to work together and to understand themselves and each other and their diverse individual, mutual, and common problems as they arise in the intricate, incessant interplay of life; to understand and utilize, too, the environment in which that life must be lived. There will be diminishing place for any arid or ornamental "scholarship" (that is, mere erudition for its own sake out of books), for any complacent self-exclusion in a life of purely intellectual contemplation. Before anything worthwhile is written, something must...
...growth and decay, change and adjustment are as much the rule in the political, social, and intellectual world as in the physical and biological; and by studying all things as in process of "becoming", by emphasizing the ideas of development, continuity with the past, cause and effect, and the interplay of many different forces--political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious--it not only furnishes a new outlook on many kinds of questions but helps to develop certain habits of observation and reasoning not less essential than those developed by the other sciences. Whatever other subjects a man may study...
...overgrown academy to that of a college. It has seen the college become a University. Finally, in watching the transition from college to University, It has seen the gradual appearance of undergraduate tolerance, the growth of interest in and cooperation with other universities. When fully realized, this free interplay of ideas is the one firm foundation on which to rest any "League of Youth...
...college is not to make Americans or semi-Americans, but to train native leaders for the country of their birth. Therefore, instead of attempting to segregate students and impress them with foreign ideals, they are left in contact with their normal environment so that there may be a continual interplay and progressive and natural adjustment between new truth and the old life. The college is content to introduce germinal ideas, expecting them to become dynamic in natural, indigenous ways. It would be of little benefit to Turkey to turn out emigrants to America, men whose education simply has made them...