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...Stephen P. Duggan, the director of the Institute in announcing the Students' Tours of the summer of 1923, stated their plans as follows: "The International Students' Tours have been organized to meet what I believe to be a double need for travel as a broadening and vitalizing element in the education of our young men and women, and the need for travel as a means of establishing a closer intellectual relationship between the youth of America and of other countries...
...Human Element in the Art of Acting...
Combining many of the features of the English parliamentary system of government with the American presidential system, the new German frame of government undertakes an innovation which commands the attention of all who live under a republican government. Fear of a coup d'etat by the junker element, coupled with machinations of the present capitalist regime have thus far prevented the new Constitution of Germany from getting under way. The Ruhr crisis may furnish the required stimulus and with a president chosen by the vote of the whole German people a more definite course of action, for better...
...parallel has been indicated by Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft, physical director at Princeton. His article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly suggests three new points of attack; the inerant coach whose ethical standards are not always high; the training table, the only aristocratic element in otherwise democratic conditions; and, finally, too long a period of eligibility. The first of these admits of no dispute, and the second is too much a matter of circumstances to warrant any definite conclusions. But the third is perhaps the most interesting suggestion that has been added to the accumulating ideas on a troublesome subject...
...Eliot, who instituted it at Harvard. The ideal of such a system, as he used it to illustrate his talk yesterday, is to make it possible for each student to find a subject which interests him, and which he can follow out with enthusiasm. No work, without that element of personal interest, can yield enjoyment, and without some return of satisfaction to the worker, any labor becomes stale and doubly tiring...