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...live together in a group of adjacent dormitories. The change would not affect the teaching system. Each college would have its own commons and its own dean. The collocation of the present dormitories, it is pointed out, is suitable for the college plan, so the scheme from a physical standpoint is not chimerical...
...have spoken tonight entirely from a material standpoint, not because I feel that America owes no moral obligation to assist other peoples to work their way out of the wreckage of war. We do, and we will carry out this duty...
Pounding with clenched fist, Dr. Stresemann shouted back: "I will not stand for such impertinence!" Recovering his usual calm, he concluded : "We are glad that the standpoint of all the powers concerned was that the Locarno policy must be continued...
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...
...superimposing the rules and regulations of the War Department upon their charges. For even disregarding the jingoistic attitude which inspired compulsory military training, the advantage to a college or university of a department over which the president or administrative board have no control is decidedly questionable from an educational standpoint...