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...this is beside the point. Professor Wood fails to reach the core of the question--that this waste is inevitable until man approaches the Utopian, and that it is not, as he seems to imply, the fault of the educators. All men are not born equal, nor is their training equal; lastly, they do not work equally hard. Each freshman admitted to college is certified usually only by the fact that he has met certain tests--imperfect, and restricted to the intellectual. A college can take care of only those who can and are willing to meet its standards. Those...
Wise deans would be quick to realize that this is no Utopian scheme. Its ofticacy is scientifically assured. For who can contest the overwhelming evidence in support of the theory that when a man has divested himself of his coat, his vest, his shirt, and his undershirt he comes to himself...
...giving tips; that his visits to churches "commonly involved the Baedeker rather than the Prayerbook. . . . He distrusted Eddyism [Christian Science] . . . recoiled from what seemed to him tasteless and tawdry in the external fashions of the Salvation Army [in England] . . ." Philosophically, Mr. Howells was a benevolent realist; economically, a Utopian. His humor was courtly; and though others have thought that it sometimes trailed off into tenuous banality, Mr. Firkins will not admit a fault here. He calls it "irony of the salon." The Howells whimsy was multiform and pervasive, given to grotesque impersonations and rollicking image-jugglery...
...Eastern Homeopathic Medical Association, Dr. E. Rodney Fiske of Manhattan stated that it would be possible to produce a "perfect man" by proper regulation of the development of the glands. It was stated at the headquarters of the American Medical Association that this view must be considered Utopian, since the functions of the glands have not been sufficiently worked out to warrant any such belief...
...better. And looking at the special circumstances of the University's nearness to Boston there seems to be every reason for predicting success to the reorganized bureau. Once its aims are fully realized the American ideal of education for all who desire it will not seem as Utopian in Cambridge as it may seem...