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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Eliot mentioned three general roads towards peace. The first of these is to substitute constitutional government for despotisms. Another is the organization of people for protection against catastrophies of all kinds. A third is universal education, which would tend to increase the average intelligence and well-being of the world, and thus to decrease the probability of war. These courses are objected to by most advocates of peace as being too slow. President Eliot, however, claims that peace can only be brought about by slow and progressive influences. He says that one of the best roads towards peace...
...technical schools in countries where they are lacking; sixthly, to promote recognition of the necessity of armed protective forces against possible invasion or internal strife; seventhly to strengthen public opinion in favor fo an international naval force; and eighthly to foster those religious instincts which strengthen family ties and tend to secure liberty and the highest public good. In this way, by slow and constant education of the people of the world, international peace may eventually be brought about...
...outrageous abolishment however, of this very popular and valuable course on Bookkeeping and Accounting dwindles upon investigation to a change. A change there is to be. But it will tend, if present indications are reliable, rather to open the course more widely to undergraduates, than to close it, and will also remedy the handicap which has developed with increasing size--lack of individual attention. Many enthusiastic members of Economics 9 who would protest violently against its removal as an undergraduate course or even against a change in its nature toward the theoretical, have felt this handicap and will approve...
...Shakespeare, saying that Shakespeare demands of his actors good elocution and articulation--the greatest assets in acting. W. M. Davis has discussed the practical value of dramatics in colleges, but is strongly opposed to the impersonation of female characters by young men, giving as his reason that such impersonations tend to make one less manly, and force one into being for a time the exact opposite to what he should...
...tentative plan has been formulated to encourage outdoor exercise by means of inter-dormitory athletics. Any such teams will, however, be merely supplementary to the regular Freshmen teams and will tend to stimulate competition rather than to detract from the resources of the regular teams...