Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which representatives of colleges and universities all over the world are present. The object of the congress is to strengthen the bonds existing between the students of France and the students of other nations, particularly of the United States, and especially to deal with the following questions: equivalence in respect to diplomas and credits in different universities, study tours and missions, travelling fellowships exchange of professors, and special courses in France for foreign students...
...ought to go far toward making the college course what it is often quite mistakenly said to be, a preparation for life. It ought to enable the University to affirm, with greater confidence than has hitherto been possible, that its graduate known his general subject, and is also, in respect of it, an educated person. It ought to improve the quality and widen the range of instruction, if the point of view of the professor and that of the student are not to be hopelessly divergent. It ought to help redeem the summer vacation, now so striking an anomaly...
...course abolition of national prohibition by repeal of the amendment is out of the question. Even its enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should...
...time when the fever for the regulation of undergraduate participation in extra-curriculum activities has enveloped both Yale and Princeton, it is well that the problem be discussed with respect to conditions at the University. On the surface it seems desirable that as many students as possible should hold offices, that the burden of the activities should not fall on a few shoulders, and that the entire time of a few office holders should not be given for the benefit of the remainder of the student body. But it is doubtful whether the artificial method in vogue at New Haven...
...United States hold aloof from one another, the chance for the real international friendship which comes of long acquaintance will be small indeed. It took the actual comradeship of the front line trenches, stripping away social mannerisms and prejudices, to teach the American soldier in France to like and respect the Briton. Unfortunately, it is impossible to stage a war very frequently to promote international good-will. But, if we remain dependent upon newspapers, history books, and casual tourists for our knowledge of foreign countries, the chances for mutual understanding will not be increased...