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Educational concern, an reflected in accompanying clippings from the Press still faces old problems with old bromidioms. Though democracy can lead boys to college in great numbers, educators still complain that, like the proverbial horse and the watering trough, it cannot make them think. "Too many men go to college without any real fitness for higher education or capacity of profiting by it," declares President Comfort of Haverford College. His answer to the question is a concentration on "quality rather than quantity", more individual attention to a smaller group. Other conventional panaceas are: to raise scholastic requirements before and during...
When the decision went against him, Lawyer Ernst declared he would appeal on the grounds that the Society constitutes itself a branch of the Government and hence is not permitted to sue a private concern...
...problems of "War Guilt" that beset other historians did not exist for Marshal Foch. So far as he was concerned Prussia started the War in a spirit of commercial greed. The entire subject is dismissed in three pages. At the same time he blandly admits that from 1885 to 1915 he was preparing for the coming struggle, visiting France's allies, preparing plans of attack and defense. His leave in Brittany was suddenly cut short one week before Germany delivered her ultimatum to Belgium. In the same way the political problems of the War itself did not concern him. Politicians...
Three puffy-faced, feverish children caused great concern near Panama City last week. They were the first cases seen in that region of a tropical disease variously called Barber Bug Fever, Chagas' Disease, Brazilian Trypanosomiasis. The disease spreads very fast. Victims who do not die become sleepy idiots...
...This, perhaps, is the testament of Liberalism. For underlying all the specific projects which men espouse who think of themselves as Liberals there is always, it seems to me, a deeper concern. It is fixed upon the importance of remaining free in mind and in action before changing circumstances. That is why Liberalism has always been associated with a passionate interest in freedom of thought and freedom of speech, in scientific research, in experiment, in the liberty of teaching, in an independent and unbiased press, in the right of men to differ in their opinions and to be different...