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...lecture of his course on Economics and Sovereignty at Lowell Institute. Not only is this suggestion most significant for determining a means of attaining the most important aim of humanity at present, but also of the educational policy that necessarily must be followed to achieve world peace. Since the basic principle in which all educators are in accord is that the broad purpose of education is to fit the individual most efficiently to understand, appreciate, and better himself and his fellowman, Mr. Hawtrey has not only proposed a universally desired solution of a perplexing international problem, but he has also...
...simple and more conservative than any other change recently suggested,, but it has a tangible efficiency and directness of perpose. A thoroughly universal education in economics is essential to alleviate the ignorance of the interrelation of sovereignty, property, power, and conflict which Mr. Hawtrey and Norman Angell suggest as basic causes of war. A general understanding of economics appears to be the simplest, sanest, and most significant educational advocacy among the recent flood of innovations and proposed experiments. With it will come the ideal of having the world think of economic ends in terms, not of individual power...
...definitely better and more flexible arrangement of course requirements is expressed in the adoption of a new nomenclature and altered demands by the English Department. Like the History Department, it has renumbered its basic courses upon a somewhat more sane system than the usual football-signal confusion, an advantage so evident that it is strange not to find it carried through in other departments, especially those of literature...
Without changing the basic nature of the Union, there are three possibilities of its future. The first, its use as an all-Freshman club and commons, is too slight for consideration, since it is so definitely opposed to the policies of the Governing Board and the needs of the University. The second, the use of the Union as a commons for Freshmen while it continues as a University club, finds as much support as the last, the continuation of the Union on its present plan as a general club...
...play touching the recent unpleasantness. It gets off to a slow start and the first act is rather tiring, though from time to time the explosion of a good gag recharges the air. Eddie, the little East Side song plugger is drafted and-runs off to Armentieres, but that basic development takes almost an hour. There is of course, his sister's boy friend whom he distrusts, who he later finds ain't done right by her, and whom he chances to meet again in a shell hole...