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This convention will be of unusual importance in that one of its chief objects will be to bring about an affiliation of the American association with the Corda Fratres, looking toward a world-wide union of students in the cause of "international peace and the universal brotherhood of man." Reports will be read from the different clubs in America showing the progress of Cosmopolitanism in the United States...
After the affiliation of the European and the American organizations, the international society will adopt the name. Federation Internationelle des Etudiants. The stated object of this consolidation is "the propaganda of the world peace movement." Under the direction of an executive committee from the international federation semi-monthly and annual publications will be issued setting forth the progress of the work...
...contrast, how small seems the world of the teacher! Instead of dealing with men, instead of coming into close connection with busy affairs, the teacher seems to be spending his time with books, or with men who have not yet arrived at the stage of doing things. But now gentlemen, that contrast is by no means all true. Nor is it essentially true. It is true in its outward aspect, but so far as the true view of success in life is concerned, so far as your service to the world is concerned, in teaching and educating young minds...
...More and more, as our society develops, the college man is coming into a real and vital relation with the outside world. I need go no further than Harvard itself, and you will see how powerful has been the impression of its professors upon the outside world. My own experience in Cleveland, some years ago, when as a lawyer, I became interested in civic affairs, confirms this most strongly. Professors may be theoretical, but it is largely by reason of the fact that they are unhampered by many of the things that hamper men in other relations of life, that...
...special way. This is in every way of benefit to the community, I admit, but he who goes into the profession of teaching goes into it as he himself sees fit. He studies what is of interest to him, and he teaches this when he gets out into the world. He is free, in a sense that no other professional man is. If he wishes to go into public life, there is every opportunity opened to him, just as to his English cousin across the water...