Word: views
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Senator La Fontaine, of Belgium, a noted Socialist leader and statesman, will speak on "The Relation of Internal to External Preparedness." This will be the first of a series of lectures which will take up in more detail the various phases of internal preparedness from different points of view. The policy of the Socialist Club this winter will be to have several open meetings with prominent speakers, among whom will be Frederick C. Howe. Commissioner of Immigration...
...only will the trader gain the broad intellectual outlook that only life abroad can give, but he will acquire a knowledge which may some day culminate in the founding of a successful domestic industry. He will be able to given the nation an international point of view, the lack of which has recently given us so much difficulty, he will be able to make his mind go across the seas and consider the policies of those whom he has actually seen and whom he knows, and he will give cause for the further growth of Harvard's democratic ideals among...
Harvard has been divided in this campaign, but not noncommittal. Harvard has always been inclined to condescend toward national politics, and to view all candidates, as we should say in France, from high to below. The Nomad remembers watching the Harvard classes as they filed past in the great torchlight parade in favor of Blaine in 1884. There was a tendency in the banners to lampoon all three of the candidates for the Presidency--Blaine, Cleveland and Butler; and this tendency was greatly emphasized when the class of '88 came along with a three-sided transparency--on one side...
...provincialism, which he considers cosmopolitan breadth, the highly (?) educated--in the bookish sense,--young man of America is fond of talking in an impassioned way of the infinitely superior knowledge and the supremely finer moral sense of all Europe. Any attempt to reply to such a point of view will receive a blank stare and the answer that your inability to see in itself proves the national mental inferiority as exampled in you. That is a fairly unanswerable argument; the old one of saying a man is a fool because he is not wise enough...
...order to assist in planning the year's work, the executive committee has sent out over 200 cards asking for suggestions as to desired subjects of discussion in the club and as to whether those interested are members of the Union with a view to providing statistics to put before the Administrative Board of the Faculty in the matter of making membership in the Union compulsory...