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...reconstructing education the classics must not be forgotten. "After all," he says, "idealism is the only practical thing." It is in humanizing, in leavening human society, then, that we can overcome those forces which, shooting up from the soil of a "reckless" materialism, work adversely to the finer and nobler aspirations of human society. If we are to choose between leaven and dynamite in reconstructing civilization, by all means let it be the former...
...Education is the support of a democracy, it is true; but it must be that education which not only informs us of the innumerable phenomena of science, but which gives to us, through an acquaintance of life and letters in the past, a comprehensive knowledge of the arts and nobler things of life. Unless this knowledge is acquired in the years of college life, it is forever barred to those who have not sufficiently estimated the meaning and value of the choices made today...
Such a move will be most beneficial. In the first place, almost all the fighters have seriously endangered their prospects of success in business. Time which would otherwise have been spent in practising some trade or profession and in keeping ahead of some rival has been used for a nobler cause. The veteran is not only likely to be losing his position, but also to forget those fine bits of knowledge on which he relied for advancement. In the second place, foreign armies include many men taken from the middle of their college career. Boys who have not even completed...
...cause for which the Republican party is fighting this year is one peculiarly dear to Harvard men who have vanquished the vaunted spectre of indifference and who feel themselves called to a wider, nobler, service than that to which the usual political program leads. For, after all, the tariff, the merchant marine and civil service reform, however long and heatedly they may be discussed are not the dominant issues of this campaign. The pivot on which the election really turns is the maintenance of the national spirit, of that love of liberty which does not seek to become license that...
...specious. It has its origin in the school of pessimism--the Schopenhauerian pessimism which fears contact with the realities of life. It springs from that same suicidal philosophy which leads men to avoid marriage and women to shirk motherhood. The artist who sacrificed himself belongs to a nobler--and commoner--humanity. --London Daily Mail...