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...maintains his enormous sphere of influence over Central China as the somewhat distrusted exponent of the old and vanished Chinese aristocracy. A cunning general, he is perhaps the most suavely mannered and custom abiding militarist in a country where law and order have long since conspicuously vanished...
...might give the meditative cynics an opportunity for the sneering epithet, fad. Were it not for the respectful attention faculties give these undergraduate analyses, they should deserve the appellation in some measure. But the fact that educational authorities in many cases accept the suggestions raises the reports from the sphere of fads to a more practical domain...
Professor Piper, speaking from the standpoint of a man whose place in the business world was exchanged, after long experience, to the university sphere, set forth these views in a conversation with a representative of The Christian Science Monitor during which he commented upon the recent expression, made in Nebraska, of a University graduate who asserted that his university had failed him by providing a background of idealism when he needed a concept of realism; by turning him out, in company with 1000 other young men and women, without practical advice, with minds trained in methods of study, crammed full...
Such tendencies as these divert college life from its proper sphere within the arts and sciences, and place an emphasis upon military training, which even its platitudinous ideals of "better citizenship" and "mental and moral development" can hardly justify...
...whether certain types of combinations are in restraint of trade or not, are debatable points, to be settled only by investigation and adjudication of the commissions. But it is certainly beyond question that those enormously intricate problems relating to interstate and foreign trade which are now within the sphere of governmental regulation or supervision, and they are many, should be handled by competent and unbiased bodies of men assured of semi-permanency in office...