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...should not have gone at this length into this matter except for the fact that it is the utterance of a man of President Eliot's reputation, culture, and experience and before persons who are, most of them, perhaps destined to come into contact, as missionaries, with the much wronged Asiaties. If the Christian missionary activity requires things as these to kindle their well-nigh expiring zeal for their cause, it is safe to predict that a terrible disillusion is soon at hand for them...
...difference and are received with horror by those unfamiliar with conditions in a modern university. It is a misconception to take such statements as indicative of an impassible breach between the students and the Faculty, for the only courses in which a man may fall to come into contact with a professor are those large elementary lecture courses which every one must take to build a foundation for the special work of his college career. When a man has chosen his major subject and begins to specialize, he inevitably comes into contact with the leading men in his department...
...other hand, the first inhabitants lived in the forests, and thus the influence of nature was so strongly implanted in them that it was not effaced by centuries of city life. They realized that truth was not to be attained by acquiring land and knowledge, but by contact and harmony with all things. One people regards nature as an obstacle, the other as a road to its desires. The western attitude leads a man to forget his own position in the scheme of the infinite and to rely only upon himself, with the result certain disaster...
...these days of frequent contact between the East and the West, Mr. Tagore's visit to a seat of culture like Harvard will, I hope, produce the desirable result. NARENDRA N. SEN GUPTA...
...been worked out, for giving college men an opportunity to have the experience and training of a couple of months at sea during the summer. The merits of the suggestion are numerous. In the first place, any such trip has a democratic influence. The educated man comes into contact with others who have not had as many advantages for intellectual training, and learns to appreciate their work and understand their point of view. Then, too, this influence may work both ways, and afford others the opportunity to understand better the college man. It is hardly necessary to enumerate the other...