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...popular reception to the Soldiers' Bonus Bill is a curious commentary on the psychology of a representative form of government. One newspaper is bold enough to say that Mr. Mellon is right and that because it will be bad for the people it should be withheld from them; another, making a bid for favor among its readers consequently is for it; still others, playing entirely upon sentiment, and having no regard for economic laws or anything else of even a semi-logical nature, will openly and blatantly advocate a bonus--the bill to be footed by Wall Street in some...
...self respecting man who values a clean record, he will be none the worse off for a few hard knocks. In spite of what Senator Walsh says, no remedy can be found in discouraging the college man from entering politics. There must be more than the occasional bold pioneer of today; the college graduate in public offices should be the usual thing tomorrow. Then, perhaps, the question of higher salaries can be discussed--not while the offices are in the hands of incompetent men. With city government in its present deplorable state, it should require only a few strong leaders...
...their way and what is more they know where they are going. A member of our own faculty recently prophecied that within ten years the Senior at Harvard would spend his entire time reading, practically at his own discretion, for a general examination. That may seem a somewhat bold prophecy now but when we observe the experiments in this direction being made by Barnard and others colleges its realization seems less remote...
Unfortunately this bold statement is slightly vitiated on its negative side by the fact that the usual method of probing, the written examination is to be employed. The preversion of this delicate instrument into an extractor of meticulous bits of unrelated information is a sad fact of experience to most of us. No doubt those who formulated the new rules mean to stress intelligence and to make the examination broad and general rather than textual. Let us hope...
...would be a bold man who would try to present a complete solution to the problem; but one fact stands out as obvious-that it is the mission of the college-trained men of the next decades, the men who are best able to appreciate the value of education, to present to the people of this country the situation which its institutions of learning are facing, and to be leaders in every effort to keep both universities and schools up to the highest level. The responsibility, in the last analysis, lies in the hands of the people...