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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once more President Meiklejohn of Amherst has spoken in a way that distinctly reveals his habit of doing all his own thinking and of doing it vigorously. What he had to say on academic freedom before the Boston Baptist Social Union the other night was reported in a way that implied considerable antagonism to the position taken on this subject by the American Association of University Professors, and may even have been so intended. It is true that the association report did quite sharply divide the members of the teaching force from the members of the collegiate boards of trustees...
...Evening Post of September 2. Our runs carried us through the outskirts of Verdun on to le Cabaret, our chief post, and occasionally to Ft. de Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least. We never took any stock in one of the Frenchmen who said: 'It isn't the shell you can hear you want to duck for, it's the one you can't hear that will cause the trouble.' When one sees Frenchmen of two years' experience dropping...
Alike in study, in manufacture, in war, in efficiency itself, which wastes the life of the young, Germany has an extraordinary vitality; and it is not too much to say that, among these many efforts only in the universities is the place of this vitality taken by the vivacity and industry of women; in the universities and high schools the nation shows the clearest signs of the spur. Both schools lost the greater proportion of their students, but the number of women has increased. Of 66,000 young men at the high schools, 12,000 were students during the past...
...Century Company, has said that the tendency of college education is to make the young man of literary inclinations a critic rather than a creative artist. "I do not think," writes Mr. Ellsworth in an article for the New York Times, "that any one conversant with the situation can say that we have as many writers of real significance today as we had twenty or thirty years ago. And it is this that makes me doubtful as to the value to literature of our enormous machinery of higher education-it is this that puzzles and rather depresses me when...
...even a portion of them are true, it only goes to show that even the training those boys have had isn't enough. You must go into this thing thoroughly. Spirit is valuable, but spirit isn't enough. Unless the thing is done well we shall have to say there is no good...