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...fault to be found is not with the theory but with the present application. Improve and revitalize the system, and the existing waste energy and effervescent sentimentalism will disappear...
...this is beside the point. Professor Wood fails to reach the core of the question--that this waste is inevitable until man approaches the Utopian, and that it is not, as he seems to imply, the fault of the educators. All men are not born equal, nor is their training equal; lastly, they do not work equally hard. Each freshman admitted to college is certified usually only by the fact that he has met certain tests--imperfect, and restricted to the intellectual. A college can take care of only those who can and are willing to meet its standards. Those...
...defense of China's withdrawal from the Geneva Opium Conference, recalls the fact that the world's drug trade still persists. Every nation has had its share of censure for the failure of that convention,--and the League more than its share. But who was really at fault is still hotly disputed, and Dr. Sye's remarks are a valuable contribution to that debate...
...college, it goes without saying, can graft an education onto an unwilling student. The institution opens its doors as a place in which knowledge can be acquired. The acquisition, however, is dependent on the active cooperation of the candidate for a degree. Where such cooperation is not shown, the fault lies not with the college but with the student and his previous training. Although every college graduates a certain number of men who have only technically qualified for a degree, on the other hand it develops some men of the highest intellectual ability, who more than justify the claim that...
...litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely outmoded long before he was an old man in Aldworth. Such archaisms as "dight," "say him nay," "fain," such clicheés as "balmy breezes," "surly portals" are all shoddy stuff. They are no easier to sing than good English. Yet the fault was not Translator Meltzer's, for the general run of librettos are concocted out of just such snips, snails, puppydogs' tails of poetry...