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...long after the date of the invention of gunpowder in the Occident, or the meaning of a certain Shakespearean passage, or even the scores of Harvard-Yale football games are forgotten, the graduate will still carry with him memory of some inspiring teacher with whom he has come in contact and whose influence, exerted perhaps indirectly, has been a vital factor in his life. Professor Copeland has a club in New York made up of alumni who felt his influence. Probably two out of three undergraduates now in Cambridge whose fathers are alumni who felt his influence. Probably...
...spent at college are in many ways the most impressionable of a man's life, not only intellectually, but emotionally and spiritually as well. To the average undergraduate "Christo of Ecclesiae" no longer fills his emotional and spiritual needs. Philosophy, merely as a science, does not fill it either. Contact with the inspirational personality of some faculty member may very well take the place of both, or at least tide over the critical period. Certainly it is a conclusion well worth thinking about, both for those who choose, the faculty and those who work under their leadership...
...life work. The second handicap to success could be overcome, to some extent, by the development of the remedy suggested for the third, provided, of course, the cost system of departmentalized education be viewed with the necessary grain of salt. The first can only be eradicated by closer contact between English and American tutors. Unless these men here learn the subtle refinements of what must be considered a worthy calling they are so many drudges driving bored students through what is, at best, a gray corridor hung with factual etchings, at worst, an Elizabethan maze, made of barbed wire...
...until Commodore Perry appeared off the Japanese coast in 1854 with ten battleships were the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") intimidated back into contact with the world. Not until two years later did Townsend Harris, as U. S. Consul General, raise at Kakisaki, near Shimoda, the first consular flag ever unfurled in Japan. Despatches told last week that many a parchment skinned workman is chipping with light mallet and fine chisel at a granite memorial to be unveiled on completion at the spot where Mr. Harris raised his standard...
Captain Alfred Lowenstein, Belgian billionaire: "I, who am sometimes reputed the richest man in Europe, was barred last week from entering the Bellevue Casino at Biarritz, France, because, though in evening dress myself, I was accompanied by a secretary not formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever...