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...apply to the world; but their meaning to the college is evident. For the very purpose of a "liberal" education, university studies are arranged for breadth: yet not even general examinations prevent the student from shutting up his knowledge in separate notebooks on his shelf. One listens in vain to catch in the conversation of a young, "litteratus" a reference to the science course he has taken, and the young lawyer salts his very food with leases and court rulings...
Certainly if there is any place in the world where vain ideas and fantastic notions may suitably be aired, it is in the proving-ground of the college. There they can have no serious permanent effect; they can be met in time and corrected. The meeting of the Debating Union last night gives useful witness. The principal speakers on each side prepared their arguments carefully; but those who talked from the floor spoke each in his own degree of knowledge, little or great. And the mistaken expressions were just as useful in clarifying the issue, and in stimulating thought...
...wholly not in vain (see paragraph...
Behind all this is the belief that America cannot remain aloof. That is what all Europe is trying, apparently in vain, to convey to us. They believe that European miseries must have some effect on American prosperity; that America cannot sit back and call "pay up", just because a few thousand miles of Atlantic isolates her. They demand "no sacrifice save that we keep among the nations of the world the great place we have taken...
...were made in the 1926 line-up. During this period the ball changed hands several times, neither team being able to gain consistently. In the last quarter several of the scrub regulars returned to the line-up, and the Seconds opened up with a forward passing game in a vain effort to score...