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Following the committee meetings in the afternoon an informal dinner at which W. G. Peirce Jr., General Manager of the Tech and President of the Association, presided, was held last evening at the Engineers' Club of Boston. Dean Lobdell of M. I. T., Mr. H. T. Claus of the Transcript and Assistant Dean Little spoke, commenting on the field of work of the college newspaper and of the value of the service which the newspaper can render to the colleges...
...Epsilon, the Intercollegiate journalistic fraternity of Technology. In the afternoon, the Convention will be split into two bodies to discuss news and business actvities. After a dinner at the Engineers' Club, at which Dean Lobdell of M. I. T., Mr. Clans, in charge of intercollegiate news at the Boston Transcript, Dean Little, former president of the Crimson, and Paul Hollister, former business manager of the Crimson, will speak, the delegates will be taken through the Boston Herald building...
Another State Bill Makes New York Look Conspicuously Silly The Boston Transcript publishes under the title " Silly Cooperationists " an editorial attack upon a certain " Commission of Intellectual Cooperation" apparently functioning abroad, which proposes to eliminate from school histories the praise of " narrow national activities" and substitute a history dealing objectively with international affairs. This view, says the Transcript, " assumes that education is the same thing as propaganda, which it is not." Whereupon the Transcript proceeds to show that it is. " The child is educated," if you please, " by arousing pride and joy in his heart. . To interweave heroic deeds, battles...
Passing the scientific question of the vitalizing effect of battles long ago interwoven with rocks and rills, it remains sufficiently apparent that the editor of the Transcript believes in education by the incitement of patriotic pride. It is useless to deny an intention to " inculcate hatreds " when the purpose of education is made the inspiration of pride by reference to wars and enmities. And it is worse than useless to call the resulting attitude of mind "culture." The bare fact is that such a theory of education makes the school an agency of chauvinism, ignorance and prejudice. The Germans proved...
Internationalism may as the Transcript suggests, be silly. Patriotic pride may be one of the goods of life. But to require the schools to teach a Deutschland Uber Alles jingoism in order to inculcate joy in the childish heart is a silly and dangerous thing...