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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...money for athletic purposes. There is no doubt that if men were to be provided with decent equipment, many more would take an interest in competing than do at present. Men of mediocre ability do not care to come out for baseball when they have to play in their old white flannel trousers, use a ball with the horsehide...
...ever so. The Puritans in old England fought for religious toleration only to become more intolerant than the Churchmen when they came to power. The Bolsheviki overthrew the worst despotism in Europe only to set up the most sinister tyranny that history has recorded. Liberty we fear, is still invoked by certain radicals only in so far as it can be made to favor their aims...
...great problems of reconstruction which will be engaging our attention for a long time after the war will be that of education. Already the European nations have started housecleaning their old establishments. Despite the severe tasks which have confronted them, the British have undertaken a remodelling of their school system, and out of a sorely depleted treasury have voted eighty millions to begin on. Our Congress will shortly be considering a bill which proposes to make a national problem of our public schools, which have hitherto been a state and local issue; according to the bill there shall...
...most conspicuous effect of the war upon education in America, so far as can thus far be discerned, is the impetus given to the teaching and study of the sciences. The old-line colleges are away below their normal strength in students, but the technical institutions are filled to the brim and most of them are now wondering what they will do with the new influx which seems certain to come next autumn. The war has developed technical industries to an unprecedented extent in this country, and the call for trained men is far greater than it ever was before...
...true value of the covenant. It does not lay down fixed rules for international relations. It leaves the final decision with the people. If the world is ready for an desires a League of Nations the rails have been laid. If, no the other hand we want the old balance of power, the pace as drawn up may be modified to fit the demands of the majority...