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...Lazarus and I apparently agreed that the present product of the American schools and colleges is unsatisfactory; in what respects and to what extent this is so, we seem to differ. Let us examine the nature of the evil. What "kind of men have we among those who play an important part in public affairs? We have business men who find it necessary, in order to call forth the most efficient exercise of their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public...
...gain or personal comfort was the end desired. This materialistic motive pervades all human society at the present time; it lies at the heart of the social problem. Unfortunately, the evil is a difficult one to remedy; an easier and more effective method is to prevent it. Does Mr. Lazarus think this can be done by recognizing and encouraging in our system of education "a frank striving for money?" I do not. Does Mr. Lazarus think that military and economic warfare can be averted in the future by the development of the instinct of self-assertion and self-advancement...
...civilization (more socialistic even than the German) are being crushed: possibly one reason is Russian mysticism. Here's to the golden American mean of the future, educating itself by recognition (1) that it is a society and (2) that there is no human life that is not economic. ISIDOR LAZARUS...
...have read with some interest the communication of Mr. Isidor Lazarus in the CRIMSON of October 26, and I must confess that his attack on the Republican sympathizers in the University impresses me as being not only particularly pointless but as eminently unfair and unreasoning. He makes three statements the truth of which I cannot for a moment admit, and from them draws a conclusion which is not only illogical but is also a insult to the intelligence of the majority of men who voted in the recent straw ballot...
...majority of Harvard University may be well pleased that the portion of America represented by Mr. Lazarus finds itself and object of ridicule by him. J. T. ROGERS...