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...fair amount of knowledge in one field and a shrewd suspicion that other fields exist. We are prone to look to England for the solution of our own problems. It is rather interesting, then, to read in the "Atlantic Monthly" (The Refashioning of English Education, by Caroline Spurgeon) that the nation which possesses Oxford and Cambridge has its problems too--"the refreshing of our education in closest relation to life; in order to meet the needs of our great industrial population"--and that "America of all countries in the world, is the one that can teach us most...
...Charles Spurgeon once said:--"Educate a man's head and you make him an infidel, educate his heart and you make him a fanatic, educate both together and you get the perfect man." Perhaps it is too much to say that this process will "get the perfect man," but it will get a better average man than now exists. Especially is this true in the problem of Americanization now before the country. There are infidels and fanatics in the land, and one is as undesirable and dangerous as the other. What is called Bolshevism is the product of too much...
...general discussions on Thursday were held at the Medical School. The topic considered in the morning was "The Future Place of the Humanities in Education." The principal speakers were Miss Caroline Spurgeon, professor in Bedford College, University of London; Dean Andrew F. West of Princeton; Dr. Edward Mewburn Walker, Of Queen's College Oxford; and professor Kirkby F. Smith, of Johns Hopkins University. Dean and Mrs. Edsall of the Medical School entertained the delegates at luncheon. The afternoon session met to consider "Problems Presented by the Student Army Training Corps, and the Future Military Training of Students." It was addressed...
...doubles one match has been played, Ware and Scudder defeating McVitty and Spurgeon of Princeton...