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Nobody can answer the question asked by Katherine Fullerton Gerould in the Atlantic Monthly: What constitutes an educated person today? She makes a brave attempt and an exceedingly interesting one to solve the riddle, but it is only one of any number of answers, and may be inadequate she admits. "By and large education presupposes some real study in one or two fields of knowledge, and a shrews suspicion that other fields exist." Add to that the fact that it "is something done to you" and it is evident that if the definition is true, the University's idea...
...true that worldly experience will make a man interesting, and no amount of book-learning will necessarily make him cultured. But is it not also true that many men graduate from the University who are educated and cultured and interesting? How do they do it? Perhaps the answer is that they did not come to Harvard only to have something done to them. They did something for themselves and for the University--a vastly different thing...
Whether or not one considers himself a "scholar in political economic or military history" the later addition to the War Library just be of unusual interest. What was going on the Berlin about mid-summer of 1914 and what went on thereafter is a question whose answer appeals to a man who knows the war only in part from personal experience, as most of us do. The War Library has now first hand evidence of some of Germany's proceedings. We all fell like looking into the packing cases just arrived...
...saying, 'Man is the measure of all things', he concentrated his attention on the study of human beings, only considering the physical world as a means, not an end in his studies. Seldom indeed could you go to Mr. Norton with a question, without finding that he had an answer to it, for he was a man whose work was studying---elaborate, sever, day by day drill...
...permanent headquarters. Another possible arrangement is a School Club Building, but the expense and a dubiousness as to its popularity are two strong objections. It is of primary importance that a school club be able to meet and entertain guests, but where is a question that seems difficult to answer...