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...existing conditions may have led her to an attempt at reform that is too extreme for the undergraduates. The American mind is flexible, but it may not be pliant enough to accept all these changes in one year. There can be little doubt but that Chicago has found a panacea for the ills of modern education. The real question lies in the drastic method of its application...
...editorial in the Harvard CRIMSON of February 4th observes that the Pennsylvania "reform movement in sports should not be taken as the only panacea for athletic ills." Not all universities, declares the CRIMSON, profoundly, are faced with the need of reducing their athletic councils to a position of complete dependence upon the faculty; and anyway, this business of making coaches automatically members of the teaching staff "will not produce athletics for all, or even remove all the professionalism...
...Pennsylvania reform movement in sports should not be taken as the only panacea for athletic ills. So much has been said in academic circles and in the daily press, that sweeping changes such as this are likely to be adopted by universities ill fitted for them...
...Panacea. Like most panaceas for war, Major Bratt's is a little indefinite of outline, is stronger on its negative side. Disarmament he considers impossible. "There cannot be any disarmament, or even reduction of armaments worthy of the name, until the nations have begun, at least in principle, to prepare for some federation, or until some more effective form than the present League of Nations has been found." The next war must be postponed long enough to find some such effective force for peace. What Major Bratt would like to see is an alliance between Labor and Capital; then...
...solve very prettily the Labor party's problem of how to appease the Dominions and win reciprocal trade concessions from them without embarking on a tariff policy to which so many Laborites are opposed -but in London last week several Dominion representatives called the Snowden scheme a "quack panacea," expressed the belief that it envisions a form of interference with the laws of supply and demand by "meddling quota boards" so complex as to be unworkable...