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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rank and less experience due to the absence of the former. After the free and willing sacrifices which all connected with the University have made during the war surely it cannot be unreasonably selfish to regard the continued depletion of the faculty as the over doing of a good thing. Some consideration should be given to the claims which the students have upon the time and attention of the professors, for especially do the upperclassmen suffer a loss, which they cannot make good later, by denying them the opportunity of instruction by experts. Hence, in the future we would suggest...
...many times a Senior in reviewing his College career has thought of the opportunities he might have seized, of the benefit he might have derived from the courses he happened to follow. Such things, however, are behind him, and he seldom reconsiders them. He followed a fixed course of training, distributed and concentrated his labors as the rules required, and he is given a certificate at the end to show that he is an educated man, which, after all was the specific thing he worked for. Why should he investigate further...
...friends than from its enemies. Those who are ready with cut and dried schemes of international organization, in which Costa Rica and England are equally represented, or in which the International Army drills constantly at the Hague, understand neither the spirit nor the necessity of the time. The vital thing, at the moment, is to train men, and particularly statesmen, to the realization that conference is a better method than war for the settlement of disputes. International Government is bound to grow slowly and to encounter every degree of hesitation and scepticism. The League of Nations at the present time...
...disagreeing with this terrible indictment of our cold-blooded masters, let us examine a little more closely the nature of a university degree. That degree certifies that one has done a certain amount of work according to the standards set by the university. That an undergraduate did a noble thing in joining the colors does not alter the fact that he did not complete the requirements for a diploma...
Governor Coolidge is perhaps gifted with far greater foresight than his opponents will allow him when he says that in reconstructing education the classics must not be forgotten. "After all," he says, "idealism is the only practical thing." It is in humanizing, in leavening human society, then, that we can overcome those forces which, shooting up from the soil of a "reckless" materialism, work adversely to the finer and nobler aspirations of human society. If we are to choose between leaven and dynamite in reconstructing civilization, by all means let it be the former...