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...extraordinary that this man committed another murder," said Mr. Manning. "It would have been very extraordinary if he had not. Would it not have been more practical to use different methods in such an institution? These conditions are not the fault of President Harding, or of the United States Senate, they are the fault of the American people...
...most heartily do I welcome the sane utterance of Dr. Steinmetz and rejoice that he has so adequately stated the truth. The only fault that I would fine with Dr. Steinmetz' utterance, indeed, is that perhaps he might have gone further still and pointed out the obvious truth that there are other "facts" than those which lie in the realm of the material. Faith, itself, is a fact, even though it can neither be weighed, felt, smelt, tasted, or experienced by any other sense perception. Love is another such fact. Penitence is another such fact. Hope is another such fact...
Paternalism is the prime fault that Europeans criticize in American universities. The administration has its finger in every student pie, as the foreigner sees it. The tendency has been for the authorities to make the path too well defined; the modern idea is to give the individual more and more freedom, to place the student more on his own responsibility, and to cut down the "you must" attitude. The "News", in one of its editorials favoring the adoption of the resolutions, takes the same position on compulsory chapel that is recognized hare. "The purpose of a church service...
...schools") of music. Programme making is an art, of course, and requires more care and consideration than audiences realize; and even when a programme is well, drawn up, the foreplanned effect is usually lost or distorted by the introduction of a series of encores. This is peculiarly an American fault...
Neither the reactionaries nor the enemies of government interference can find cause for alarm in this resolution. It is merely the correction of a fault of long standing. Its effects are simple but important. By the mere change of date, the government is made more quickly responsive to the popular desire, and coordination between executive and legislative is considerably aided...