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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Their responsibility is so enormous that a false ideal set up by them may carry the work of a whole generation to no advance. The opportunity of a university lies in the training of these men. If the university insists upon interesting itself primarily with the culture of the past, a culture which was as new in its day as the present culture which the university ignores is today, then men will ignore the colleges since there is no apparent connection between them and every day life. In so doing they will miss as well the study of history...
Thus all members of the University, both past and present, owe President Eliot a profound debt of gratitude for his clear understanding of their educational needs. And even though he may not be personally known to all of them, they wish him the greatest happiness on his eighty-fifth birthday...
...German propaganda in this country. During actual hostilities most of us were keenly alive to the menace of German agents in America, but now that the armistice has been signed and the Imperial Government overthrown, we are prone to think that Boche propaganda is a thing of the past--which is not true by any means...
...lead us to make some definite steps in progress, or cause us to run down a steep place into the sea. It is not to be assumed that every change is necessarily for the better. Nations have gone wrong almost as frequently as they have gone right in the past, and will probably continue to make mistakes in the future...
President Eliot will speak on "Unitarianism--Its Influence, Past and Future" at the weekly meeting of the Harvard Forum in the auditorium of the First Church (Unitarian) at 7.45 o'clock tonight...