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...student is the life and environment that surrounds him. All that he really learns he learns, in a sense, by the active operation of his own intellect and not as the passive recipient of lectures. And for this active operation what he needs most is the continued and intimate contact with his fellows. Students must live together and eat together, talk and smoke together. Experience shows that that is how their minds really grow. And they must live together in a rational and comfortable way. They must eat in a big dining room or hall, with oak beams across...
...effort without compensation and with a limited budget. But no enterprise of this sort can be carried on without funds. The other side of the work--the study and tabulation of data, the experimental research--has been handicappel by slim support. Those of us who live outside of any contact with infantile paralysis can little realize the great good that is being done in changing cripples into wage earners--"the reconstruction and re-education of human derelicts." A greater good can be accomplished by learning how to prevent the spread of paralysis. The Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission deserves the active...
...continues in an artificial environment. He becomes engrossed in student activities which have about as much connection with the real world as a wart on the end of the nose has with vision. The average college man defers and temporarily sacrifices that association with older people and that intimate contact with concrete issues which are absolutely essential in making a man out of boy stuff. He would be spared much of delay could he have a clear understanding of his peculiar limitations before he enters the real world where he is to live. It is not difficult to make...
...racial groups cannot lie down together like lambs. The fact of race hatred, like any other of the irrational and abstractedly reprehensible dispositions of man, cannot be wished or argued away. In order that this fact may appear it is necessary that the incompatible races should be actually in contact, working and competing with one another. It appears in the West for this reason. It appeared in the South after the Civil War between the negroes and whites for the same reason. And this, too, is why New England has been in both cases incapable of appreciating the problem concretely...
...official spokesman of all the inhabitants of the liberated regions who found themselves in contact with the members of the mission, in sending you today the sincere expression of their thanks for the great service which they have rendered...