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...have, I believe, a defect which I think is at least partly responsible for the odd fact that, so far as I can discover, about eight men in ten, on completing their formal education, find the choice of a life work an extremely perplexing problem. This defect, however, is one which neither Harvard nor yet all colleges combined could do anything appreciable to remedy: because the remedy must be first applied at the very beginning of the child's formal education, that is, in the kindergarten or primary school. And precisely this is already being attempted by both the Montessori...
...defect. I had aimed to give, in the "Illustrated," a bit of advice that seems sometimes to have helped young men when they face that troublesome problem of choosing a life career. In very condensed form that advice is, to bear in mind that those interests and proclivities which one acquired spontaneously as a boy, outside of the schoolroom, and which one has more or less kept up or more or less neglected during the more exacting years of high-school and college, that those proclivities are still a part of oneself. They may be overlaid by the thoughts...
This was, I thought, a perfectly innocent subject for an interview, and not impossibly a useful one. But it was lost. And my remarks were gratuitously distorted into an unfounded and idiotic attack on Harvard University. This was done at some stage or other of the preparation, as a reading of the "Illustrated's" article makes evident, merely in the interests of journalistic sensation. And when the injustice of the article as printed was pointed out to the Board of the "Illustrated," these gentlemen with the readiest good-will and in the most honourable fashion did all that was possible...
With no further reference, then, to the "Harvard Illustrated," and referring to the present case merely as a recent instance of a regrettable thing that occurs from time to time in American colleges, and not more at Harvard than elsewhere, I am led to one or two reflections, concerning the realization in college life of a thoroughly sensitive and discriminating loyalty. The least relaxation of this spirit on the part of any member of a college group may lead even inadvertently, to such serious misapprehensions...
Secondly, if I had made or if a hundred of our professors were to make such accusations as have been attributed to me, every one of our college papers ought in my opinion to be more sensitively loyal than to print the rubbish. Not, I think in the first place, so much by reason of a blind loyalty, as because the accusations are patently unfounded. If, for instance, Harvard were in any least iota "literally robbing her students" (!!!), there would be some evidence thereof. And it is well known that any member of the University, from the oldest professor...