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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...passed when the colleges could lay down entrance requirements unquestioned; high schools have taken the aggressive, and show a growing tendency to try to dictate the terms on which they will furnish their product. But it is to be hoped they will not try to break down the colleges' qualitative standards not to force acceptance even of preparation of good quality in improper subjects. President Lowell points out that the existing "diversity of admission requirements and curricula" is great, and "gives the boy a chance to go to the institution where he will get the maximum education of which...
James Russell Lowell was a product of Harvard, brought up in an atmosphere which unconsciously makes for a strong and enduring devotion to the nation. All one need do is look around him to find where Harvard gets these traditions. The Washington Elm, Soldiers Field, Memorial Hall, are mute testimonials of the part Harvard and Cambridge have played in the national crises of the past...
...chapter. But the type of mind that will overcome the problems of mankind in this new chapter, will be the same type that has done so in the past--the trained mind. And by that I mean particularly the broad, cultivated mind that is peculiarly the product of the college of today. This is the 'lesson' that is learned at universities such as Harvard, and it need never be re-learned...
...task of setting our peace time industries once more on a firm footing. This, however, should not be interpreted as to mean the freedom to impose upon labor the unfair conditions which prevailed before the war. The laboring classes are universally demanding for themselves a reasonable return from the product of their labor and the permanent establishment of the eight-hour day in nearly all kinds of industry. It is only by meeting these demands in a spirit of sympathy and understanding that the employers may fulfill their part in making secure the foundations of a fasting industrial democracy...
...bread produced from a given quantity of wheat. The disease of bread known as "rope" has also been studied. These experiments and their results are undoubtedly of the greatest value to the country, should occasion arise to get the greatest food value out of the least possible amount of product...