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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expression "extension courses" could mean more often educational activity untouched by vocationalism, and conducted by the greatest scholars of the age and less often courses in accounting, business principles, and home-making the university would be doing a greater service to the intelligent public than it possibly can by assuming duties properly belonging to vocational training schools...
...some citizens in the United States who consider our southern boundary the Isthmus of Panama. "The United States will never invade Mexico as long as it remains peaceful. There would be no excuse for intervention unless that country is far more turbulent than it has been. Intervention would mean annexation. Only an enormous army, for a long time, would be able to tame Mexico. No good American citizen who believes in the principles of the Constitution wants annexation...
...Reed: "I dare say they will bob again. I am not going to say anything mean, although I find it pretty hard not to?...
...better proof of the vitality of the system may be found, however, in the matter in which emphasis has shifted of late from the problem of building a tutorial system to that of keeping one. And even to Mr. Peterkin, the latest commentator, this does not mean that the goal has been achieved, that all that remains to be done is to nurse and fondle any full-fledged academic child. It means rather that in the opinion of the tutors, as in that of the undergraduates and in that of the Faculty, the progress that has been made suffices...
...regarded as indicative of a higher type of intelligence and entitled to a higher grading, and that an opportunity and encouragement is offered to those men whose interest is in Literature rather than in English Literature or in English Literature rather than in Anglo-Saxon and Linguistics. This will mean that in future only those students whose natural bent inclines them to the special field will elect that field, which is as it should be. Incidently the whole approach to Literature is placed on a broader basis. Another very healthy and hopeful sign in the new plan is that...