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Last week, white haired, white mustached, 85, and carrying himself like the veteran which he is, Mr. Holmes could well afford to laugh at the suggestion that the greater part of a man's active years are behind...
...life. That this latter sort is the kind which is necessary and desirable today is beyond dispute. Life is becoming complicated to the point where tools and selective judgement are vital. The medieval whose basic creed denied legitimacy to the temporal things of this earthly life could well afford to regard his education as something apart: today, with different standards and different conditions to be met, such an attitude must inevitably mean suicide...
...seems very likely that a more varied and excellent faculty will be employed than single small colleges can afford For as the Claremont accumulation of units grows, the benefit of a necessarily broadening and increasing staff will accrue to each college. It thus remains to be seen whether a faculty of university excellence working with scholars living under small college conditions will evolve a completer education than American institutions of either type have so far succeeded in doing...
...before Congress, which is intended to create a national Department of Education, shines by light reflected from the halo of universal learning that crowns a democracy. The purely negative argument, that a nation spending about three quarters of its income on past, present, and future wars is able to afford $1,500,000 for education can be strongly urged in favor of the proposal...
...perhaps a bit unusual. The college lecturer is not a charlatan. Neither was Socrates. But his lectures were apparently interesting, his audience attentive. And college audiences are not filled with sour critics, but with boys who have come definitely for the inspiration and high amusement which education should afford. When a lecturer months his lines, when he forgets his part and fills up the gap with decadent verbiage, he is "strutting his hour" rather ill. And the man in the front of the orchestra who coughs and clacks at the wrong time is equally at fault. The three a week...