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...Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who negotiated the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq., INTERNATIONAL), and Joseph Chamberlain, beloved and fearless Victorian champion of Empire, whose darling wish it was that his son Austen should grow up into a statesman whose diplomacy should transcend even the limits of the Empire...
...stated in one of his first utterances after coming into office, the United States needs some adequate national supervision of education. Forty-eight states exercise a loose and halting regulation within their own bounds. But no authority exists for coordinating educational processes which are coming more and more to transcend state and even regional lines. Today it is more common than at any time in the past for students to leave home and go to school at a distance. This practice makes for that broader knowledge of men and things which characterizes the much lauded English college graduate. It diminishes...
...thing America believes: only through education can a people rise to greatness. You, Sir, looking back through three-score years of rewarded effort, have lived to see your influence, which transformed the little College of Harvard into a great University, gradually transcend those ample limits and help to shape a nation's destiny. In that nation, your record shall stand beside the names of those who founded the Republic, made it secure, and led it forward toward new heights of happiness and truth. In a life which has far outrun the ancient limit of the Psalmist, you have not ceased...
...that helped in placing the university on its feet". Nothing could be more unlike the Harvard spirit which he glorifies, than the narrow and bigoted argument which he advances. If he hopes thus to make Harvard a "Protestant college", he will soon find that the University has ideals which transcend race and religion and which resent such bigotry and medievalism as he represents...
...where music has been long established as one of the best professions, far fewer ladies study voice than here, because in Italy some show of vocal promise is regarded as a more or less necessary prelude to vocal study. Not so here. With our sublime optimism and idealism, we transcend mere physical limitations. The lofty aspiration is the thing...