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...citizenship. Here is much food for thought. It would seem that the elementary and secondary schools, and even the homes are not fulfilling their task of fundamental education. And to quote Professor West in regard to the responsibility of the college in this direction: "Students are being taught to answer quite glibly academic questions of a decided erudite character, while at the same time they are losing contact with the world about them". It is the old appeal not to isolate the college from the outside world. Yet this appeal should not be made to the college alone...
...might be a valid answer to those who talk of Harvard "indifference" to read them the recent letters in the CRIMSON, revealing that peculiar self-consciousness with which so many Harvard men face the world, listening anxiously to the "other fellow's opinion about us. But if we are to criticise Harvard fairly, it might be wiser to search for the underlying philosophy of this University, rather than to measure its fallings by standards created to suit the ideals of other colleges. It has become the fashion, in education, in literature, to attack the "genteel" tradition of New England...
...Harvard to quench this "detrimental resentment." Therefore he suggested as a quenching agent the remodeling, or we might say, the cospomolization of the existing society. The recent communication under the heading "A Boost for Back Bay" suggests the impossibility of changing the existing order of things. Then my answer is, "do not puzzle over why Harvard fails to attract westerners". We must choose between two alternatives, a national representation in the College, or the present social order: which brings me to the point I wish to make...
...Answer to the argument that unionization destroyed individuality, Mr. on pears maintained that under modern conditions "the individuals is a mere cog in the great wheel of a modern industrial plant" and that individual freedom could be attained only by cooperation in the union. He explained the renewal of the open shop campaign by the fact that there are, "still living among employers the typical old Bourbons, those who have...
...seldom that a dispassionate man feels called upon to answer an attack upon the existing order of things. But, having read the communication you printed last Friday under the heading of "The Mental Luxury of Conservatism," and realizing the enormous force such communications exert on the public opinion of our community and the insidious threat they offer to the very existence of Boston society, I think it necessary to reply. Being neither a Northeasterner nor a Middle-Westerner, I truest that I am not partisan...