Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President William T. Foster '01, of Reed College, pertinently criticizes American college education under the title "Vicarious Thinking" in the New York Nation. He charges the undergraduate with intellectual sloth and the educational system with failure to awaken in him enthusiasm for ideas. This is not an occasion in which the college man should jump into the breech and unqualifiedly defend himself and the system under which he works. It is doubtful if any undergraduate can be found who, if complacent in regard to his own spiritual and intellectual condition, is satisfied with that of his fellows. Many students...
Secret diplomacy in its worst form, coupled with the inflated preparedness of the type called "adequate" brought on this war in Europe. If the people of this nation knew the forces behind this wild call for "adequate" preparation, this false "insurance" of peace, if our young men understood the financial and commercial pressure back of this agitation, they would treat with the indignation it deserves this wholesale betrayal of the spiritual ideals and forces of America. Force, the "Big Stick," the mailed fist, the iron hand behind the Law and such cant phraseology of the half-baked thinker are running...
What is "adequate" preparedness? Who shall be the "experts" into whose hands this nation shall give its future? Thomas Edison, Major-General Wood or the Du-Point Powder Co.? Against whom, against what, are we thus "adequately" to prepare? Have we attained such internal unity among out sixty or more nationalities, have we even utilised one-half of the potentiality of such nationalities in building up world federation, that we should now take up in despair this old man's outworn creed and method from the war ruined hands of Europe...
...that the world is debtor to Germany in art, literature, science and sociology was brought up by those opposed. This premise was granted by the opposition. International law was spoken of as something only for college professors to be acquainted with and not to be thought of by any nation when at war. Several speakers brought up the question of whether personal sympathies should be considered rather than the prestige of American policies. Those in favor of the question suggested that, at heart the United States should be on the side of the Allies, for the governments of Great Britain...
...cannot doubt. The are of great building is probably at an end, but we need a chemical laboratory, and we look forward to the time fifty years hence when the University will house practically all its students. We trust that the students body will become representative of the nation even more than it is now, and we hope that Harvard will have not only the admiration, but the affection of her sister universities. At my inauguration President Hadley referred to me as the President of our greatest University, which shows that to a certain extent we have the affection...