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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year to censure the notoriously disloyal La Follette. While the majority of the press and public men have since come out in support of the Government's war policy, it remains for the inarticulate mass of voters, protected by the secrecy of the ballot box, to express the true verdict of the state. The election returns will indicate, more clearly than can newspapers or public speakers, whether the Germans of the Northwest, whose loyalty has been questioned, and the Northwestern farmers, on whose efforts so much of our success must depend, will wholeheartedly support the nation in its sacrifice...
...agree with Mr. Joslyn that the transfusion of the mere form and technique of knowledge cannot accomplish the desired result. It is the substance that we must look at; and the true substance is the basic or molding idea...
That the average college teacher is one of nature's noblemen we know. That the average Freshman is susceptible to the highest inspiration, is, though disputed, probably true. And money for books and laboratories and a matrix of student life is not lacking. Where, then, is the trouble (or the source of greatness, in so far as we may be satisfied with the result)? In the philosophy of life presented, I maintain that the basing of ideals, in history, economics, science, literature and personal attitude upon individual spirituality, is doubly vicious; because, at its utmost flowering, it manifests itself...
...international and civil warfare, a man should be not only informed, but most of all ennobled. He must be able to realize what his actions mean to the welfare and happiness of others. He must possess a sympathetic understanding, an unfaltering courage, and a keen perception of what is true and right. We look to our American colleges to accomplish this. C. S. JOSLYN...
...beyond reproach in point of open-mindedness, integrity, intelligence and zeal. And then in the second place, we ought to feel and carefully to foster that elemental sentiment of gratitude and affection towards the Institution whose benefits we are here accepting. It is a sentiment which could, it is true, swell into a blind and fanatical loyalty; but also it is a sentiment without which, in due measure, any man becomes a monster...