Word: nielsen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...openhanded. But the State Department has apparently taken the sound position that it is not for the United States, alone and of its own initiation, to effect a change in international law, whatever changes there may have been in the conditions that were responsible for such law. Fred K. Nielsen, former Solicitor for the State Department, is authority for the statement that such a change will not be made without an appropriate agreement with other nations...
Through some such means the salvation of American college education may be found. The danger of overcrowding, the tendency to "swamp" all of our great universities, which President Nielsen of Smith points out as one of the most alarming characteristics of education today, might be obviated by adopting this proposed Candian plan with a diametrically opposite object. The small colleges formed about the central university base would give the small-group, dormitory life which Stephen Leacock spoke of as the first prerequisite of a successful university, and for higher education there would still be the vast resources of the large...