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...till near the close the true state of affairs was not appreciated. That this is true is evident from the fact that the defaulter sometimes continues to hold a respected position, or even to be an active church member. Such a contradiction is certainly not always, and from the outset, conscious hypocrisy. There has been a gradual numbring of moral sensibility, a growing blindness of the soul, and when the light of such a man is darkness, how great is that darkness...
...first system for which renovation of some sort is desirable is the manner with which Faculty advisers guide freshmen at the outset of their undergraduate careers. I should say, rather, fall to guide. There seems to be an idea that the freshman year, with its full quota of prescribed courses, is rather a waste anyway and is not deserving of serious attention. The advisers, consequently, explain as briefly as possible the methods of distribution and concentration, fill up the freshman's cards with all the elementary courses it will hold, and dismiss the young man with the conviction...
...year the impression, unless, stirred up and turned over, hardens and become a resolution. That is why, I believe, one encounters so many seniors who, when asked what their field of concentration is, answer with a weary shrug. 'Oh, English.' What is necessary is an adviser who at the outset will devote time to explaining thoroughly all the varied possibilities that the freshman may choose: an adviser, let it be said, who has intelligence enough also to know what the freshman ought to take, and regardless of what he wants to take, and who has sufficient persuasion and logic...
...Stirling Taylor presents Oliver Cromwell in his true light as one of the great paradoxes of history. At the outset he attributes the confusion and mistatements regarding the Protector to undue consideration of theory at the expense of facts, and proceeds to a minute investigation of the actual facts of Cromwell's life that sets forth the problem of the man inlucid outline...
...outset of the Great War, amid the desoluation and gloom, one belief shone through the murkiness. It was that after such a world-involving calamity lasting peace must ensue. When the war ended, statesmen enthusiastically took up their task making certain that peace. But politics and petty jealousy overcame their ardor until there could be no absolute surety that such a catastrophe might not reoccur...