Word: views
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that I entered Harvard College in 1853, at fourteen years of age. . . . I look back upon my college education with less satisfaction than any other part of my life. I was not thoroughly fitted. I was too young. The mistake was made, with a well-meant but mistaken view of saving me from the 'dangers of college life,' of boarding me for the first two or three years a mile away from the college--as if there were any dangers or, if there were, as if the best part of a college education...
This is as it should be. It has long been so in England. The salvation of our country must be worked out by men with training and a broader view. On the other hand, in this age of democracy no man can become truly, educated who has not at least a live interest in political issues. Every man, and, a-fortiori, every college man, should be at least an amateur politician...
...should the prospective business or professional man be content to leave active politics to lawyers. Modern public life has in it many men who are not of the legal profession; politics profits by the participation of men of varied points of view. And as regards training, it may again be emphasized that not special subjects so much as a general grasp of life problems and the power to think are the requisites. Good work in almost any department will develop them...
...belief in ideals. Their service will be of assistance to themselves as well as to the public. It will broaden them and open their eyes to the hardships and struggles going on in thousands of homes to earn a sufficiency for existence, it should teach them to appreciate the view-point, of the other side, to see how easy and yet how unjust it is for the one who inherits money but has never earned a cent to hold aloof and criticize; it should make them realize that it is just to levy taxes on inheritances...
...face of the somewhat adverse criticism of the Harvard Battalion which is in the process of formation, it has seemed to me appropriate to ask your indulgence for the expression of a point of view which is held, I believe, by many of those who have enlisted and which, it seems to me, has been unduly slighted by the recent criticism in your columns...