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...unfortunate that Adjutant-General Pearson should seize the present moment for what sounds like ill-advised and unsound criticism of the splendid work for military preparedness now under way at Harvard. His disavowal of intent to find fault will scarcely remedy the favorable opinion that many persons will be inclined to form. In belittling the intensified training of officers at Harvard, Adjutant-General Pearson is taking a position directly opposed to that of the leading military authorities of the United States. The Harvard course has the approval and support of the War Department. The program of training as mapped...
This letter does not suggest that free speech is being destroyed at Harvard, or any other such ludicrous proposition; but only that the Corporation has suddenly reverted to an unsound and discarded policy in one aspect of university administration...
...these words be taken to mean that forthwith every manager of a major sport be given credit for half a course towards his degree, the suggestion is not only revolutionary but unsound. For, even granted that in his three years' competition for and conduct of a managership, every manager must devote more time, energy, and ability to his work than is required in many a half-course of college work, the fact still remains that as things now stand; the work of managership cannot receive scholastic recognition, and must in a sense be its own reward. Valuable it undoubtedly...
...peculiar but not unpraiseworthy characteristics of the natives of India--their passive bravery, their love of self-directed duty and their aversion to authority and organization, their respect for nature, their deep religions sensibility. To these people the doctrines of Gotoma and his greater successor, Buddha, seemed not unsound. The two leaders believed in the subtle extension of personality, the doctrine that perfect individuals must sooner or later blend into one great whole. Each man must strive for that after-life into which he can pour his whole being. In this way he will obtain the cosmic consciousness which will...
...ideals are contrasted with and opposed by rigid facts. This contrast has been emphasized by modern students and this emphasis has lead to investigation, which has proved the old forms of natural theology unsound. No impression has been made upon the assumption of the supremacy of ideals; for history has proved the power of ideals to hold their own with facts...