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...Harvard College, not only because it is interesting, but also because its students learn by long-continued practice to visualize reality. They are bound to forget details in the earths structures and processes. They cannot lose the power gained in study. That same power remains, tending to give sounder judgment in political struggle, business venture, or social activity...
...outlook. But after years of careful investigating and recording, it will have at band convincing data to assist a comparatively persuadable world. At least this is the hopeful view of the matter. And it is well to hope that the present will give way, under the strain to something sounder...
...ordinary examination glorifies memory, an intellectual quality of secondary rank. In the final examination period the salient fact stands out that a superficial knowledge embracing many facts which one cannot hope to retain is more profitable than a modest and a sounder one. When the examination impends there is no longer time to think, only to memorize. That examinations test memory rather than mental power is the most cogent criticism against them...
...internal economy of a horse makes for better citizens. Furthermore, the whole tendency of military training is to discourage independent thinking. And if ever a university wishes to live up to its name, it ought to foster instead of discourage independent thought. Mr. Lane seems to have the sounder view of what constitutes good citizenship...
...World Court instead of the old Permanent Court of Arbitration, if the Senate consents to President Harding's proposal. I have no doubt that when the United States gives its support to the World Court, we shall make progress in arranging our system of arbitration on a much sounder and more modern basis...