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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...among the few subjects that everyone is familiar with and can talk about. Professional learning is, no doubt, cultivating, but standing alone, it is not culture, for the reason that it is circumscribed and includes only a narow part of the stream of thought. For a lawyer to look through the microscope of a man of science increases his means of culture, for it broadens his ideas by revealing to his sight things before unknown. But the scientific man who can see only through his microscope has a very restricted vision of the world; and the same thing is true...
...situation there is perhaps not as evident at first sight as in England; for the "plant" of the continental university is so much smaller than that of a residential institution like Oxford or Cambridge that the outward effects of its desertion are less immediately obvious. But a look beneath the surface or a talk with any of the academic people who remain will quickly reveal the true state of affairs. And yet, despite the overwhelming strain of it all, so devoutly does France believe in the necessity of maintaining in every possible way the continuity of her intellectual activities that...
...suggestion for a league of nations to enforce peace does not go very far--not far enough to please those who look forward to a universal federation of the world, but probably quite as far as is practicable. It proposes that the members shall agree not to go to war with one another before submitting the matter in dispute -- whether strictly a question of international law or not--to an impartial body selected to examine it; and that all the members shall pledge themselves to declare war on any of their number that begins hostilities against another without submitting...
...whatever the teams look like on paper, the winner is going to be the one which can "come through" in the pinches. Every world's series, every big contest, brings to light a new hero, the man who "came through" when needed. Sometimes it is the recognized star of the team who justifies his reputation. More often, it is the mediocre man who rises to the occasion. It is easy to find men who can field and bat well in practice, but the real player is the man who keeps up his high standard under the most trying conditions...
...extraordinarily bad taste in imputing the motives of any gift which has been accepted by the College. Mr. Hudson Maxim, no matter what we may think of his ideas, has made us a gift which should be taken in the spirit in which it was given. "Never look a gift horse in the mouth...