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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Liberty Loan Committee has expressed the hope that all members of the Faculty, men in the Graduate Schools, or men who live at home will, when buying Liberty Bonds, accredit their amounts to the sum collected by that committee. Last fall Yale was credited with a collection $200,000 larger than that taken up in the University, because they arranged to have all their faculty members and the men of their Graduate Schools add their subscriptions to the total sum raised by the undergraduates of Yale College...
...settling of the problem of the ages can't be done in the twinkling of an eye--not even the legal eye. I, for one, have no such ambitions, even if I were to live and try for 'a thousand years. But though the aim be only to hint at a useful tendency--that, too, takes a certain amount of effort and patience. That is why I feel the need of coming back to the attack, on that little matter of the aims of education...
...consideration of these irremediable basic circumstances it seems that the further encouragement of nationalism will only produce painfully unrealizable ambitions. The migrations of the past have decreed that these interspersed European races should live together. The practical solution of their friction is to democratize and enlighten the federative governments under which they must live, not to attempt to divide them...
Although we may say that we have had enough training as privates, there would be in the regular cantonments a spirit of discipline impossible in a college camp. Every man who hopes to become an officer will some day have to live under this discipline; he will be much better material for an officers' camp if he has an opportunity such as this to gain the regular army spirit. In addition, an officer who has lived among the men as one of them will be more able to understand and appreciate them, and therefore to command their respect. Finally...
...book related to present conditions in Russia, but it doesn't. It does, however, help to explain the efforts of Lenine and Trotsky in Russia during the past three months by uncovering the underlying motives which controlled their actions,--ideas which, it must be admitted, they have endeavored to live up to consistently. Briefly, these ideas are that the only hope for proletariat control of government is through international socialism accomplished by world-wide revolution; that capital has become international and that the war against capital must likewise be international; that if the present war continues much longer...