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...Russia upon such a scheme would be, and are, helpless in revolutionary Russia. The only education which could conceivably be valuable in a period of violent change would be an education which enabled the individual to so far free himself from the immediate prospect as to orient himself and measure tendencies and probabilities. To train for nothing but success in the present business world is to invite intellectual bankruptcy. There were men of the older generation in England who faced the war on Greek literature better than some of their fellow citizens faced it on the soundest economic education...
...BEACHCOMBER IN THE ORIENT-Harry L. Foster-Dodd, Mead ($3.00). The Beachcomber's wanderings take him through Borneo, Siam, French Indo-China, Japan, the Malay States, the Philippines, under freight cars, and among types seldom met at first-hand in the pages of books. The volume is illustrated...
Following on the heels of the virtual downfall of Terrigiani, head of the Grand Orient Order of Masons in Italy, who was reduced to a position of political impotence by the recent Fascista decree denying political rights to the Masons, comes the news of Serrati's arrest. Menotti Serrati is the editor of Avanti, most radical newspaper of the Socialist party. His arrest for plotting against the safety of the state is considered a vindication of Mussolini's recent threat that he would carry his war against Bolshevism into the enemy's camp...
...coming and going of students between universities is centuries old. My little proposal was simply to apply the friendly exchange to school boys. I hoped, and still hope, that five hundred boys of high school age can be brought each year from Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and the Orient to our shores, here to be welcomed and given a year of education in fifty or more of our best American schools. Further in vision I see one hundred American boys spending a year in the five foreign environments from which our guests have come. I believe that...
...complicated. European parents will say: Can you give our boys culture? American parents will ask: Can you give our boys protection? Surely these two requirements can be provided. We here can offer a year of great eye-opening advantages to boys from Europe and the Orient in the settled life of our boarding schools. And we ought to be able to find, granted the boys are reliable, sufficient protection in European schools. The greatest benefit accruing to both sides would be, in my judgment, not a distinctly scholastic advancement, but a socialized understanding of the country visited. Years hence...