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...means a serious blow. In the first place, colleges have been, undoubtedly, overcrowded in the past due to the modern craze for a college education. This overcrowding has led in large measure to a lowering of standards or to the formation of unpleasantly routine arrangements. It is a truism to say that the best work is done by the more able, and not by the more numerous. In addition to weeding out, the depression has caused students in general to adopt a more serious attitude in their college career. On the whole, the financial crisis has toughened and refined...
There are, of course, obstacles to the success of a general "get-together" of the members of a large field. Perhaps most cogent is the truism that concentrators are primarily interested in the subject, not in their co-workers. Any attempt to bring them together may fail simply because of this lack of mutual interest, and because the men are often personally incongenial. Such a difficulty may be overcome, however, if men can be shown the definite advantages which such periodic meetings offer them. By conversation with colleagues a student can be brought into contact with many branches...
...funds. In Germany where public money appropriated to increase employment was expended on parks and elaborate housing improvements instead of on other things which were much more essential to a war-ridden, debt-burdened country, there is a striking example of this misdirection of public wealth. It is a truism in economics that such schemes as that proposed by the Democratic Committee of the Senate for the undertaking of public enterprises in reality do not "create" work. For the money which the public will spend on bonds for these government undertakings will be diverted from other channels...
With the proposal to abolish compulsory military service few would care to quarrel. So long as men are deliberated trained for war, even as a defeuse measure, war will be possible. It would be superfluous to repeat this truism if there were not large and influential groups which fall to recognize it. Dr. Bntler's cardinal proposal, however, that the War Department be abolished in favor of a Department of National Defense, is of more doubtful value. To hide the business of war behind a euphemism while retaining its nature is at best a well-meant subterfuge. It is pleasant...
...knowledge and encourage him to take advantage of them, rather than to confront him with a a lifeless array of facts summarizing the subject; and care is taken to wood out as soon as possible those not capable of sustaining this intellectual freedom. It is, of course, a truism that concentration and interest in a field of study increases in proportion as interruptions are eliminated...