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...much that the student resists facts and details. He will absorb trusts and labor unions, municipal government and direct primaries, the poems of Matthew Arnold, and James's theory of the emotions. There is no unkindliness of his mind towards fairly concrete material. What he is more or less impervious to is points-of-view, interpretations. He seems to lack philosophy. The college has to let too many undergraduates pass out into professional and business life, not only without the germ of a philosophy, but without any desire for an interpretative clue through the maze. In this respect the American...
...York Advertiser says the play "dares to depart from conventionality and attains a swiftness and surety of movement and a logic of events by its own methods. There are no lagging moments. Its people are alive"; and the Morning World: "it lends itself to tense situations, it is direct and culminative in interest, and it has the cardinal melodramatic quality of sympathetic appeal...
...compare Columbia's statistics with those of other American universities because the word "student" does not mean the same to all of them, the tremendous public service which Columbia performs cannot be overlooked. Before the year is over 20,000 men and women will have come under the direct, personal influence of the university. Some of them will study in the regular class-rooms in the various departments, and the rest will receive extension instruction from members of the faculty. A new feature of the work this year will be to give the thousands of the city's immigrants first...
...hours after they have been hit, even when coming from Arras or the line farther north toward Ypres. On arrival in the hospital patients are at once seen by the receiving officer, who, in our service, was one of the residents, and by him sent either to the ward direct, to have a bath first, or to the operating-room, as each single case demanded. The largest number of admissions to the University Service in any 24 hour period was 33 cases. In the three months 295 new cases were allotted to us--an average of over 3 cases...
...preventing wars elsewhere; of using our own preparedness as part of a larger plan of policing the whole world; and of preventing so far as possible the starting of a conflagration which may set us afire, however small our connection with the people who strike the match, and our direct interest in the questions that caused them to do so. To the prepara- tionists, therefore, the suggestion of a league to enforce peace ought to appeal as a means of doing on an international scale the thing they are seeking to do for the United States...