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...sort of Babylonian boarding house of enlightened beings, living in a happiness which was sooner or later bound to meet the rocks of the vital problems of the world's life. All that is changed today. The growing convictions of the early years of the war have burst forth into actual participation. Where once the germs of indifference flourished, the seeds of sincerity and solidarity of purpose have now been planted. In the first days of the year they have been slow to blossom. As time passes, however, they have grown into the flowers of achievement, so that on this...
...advisability of adopting such a principle, however, must be pragmatic in nature; we must seek to discover how it works out when put into practice. For the justification of this or of any other system of education, then, we must look to the product that it brings forth...
...what respects and to what extent this is so, we seem to differ. Let us examine the nature of the evil. What "kind of men have we among those who play an important part in public affairs? We have business men who find it necessary, in order to call forth the most efficient exercise of their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public indignation. Dean Gay admitted this failing when he recently advocated unrestricted profiteering. We have business men who persistently...
...sized morsels to be devoured by the student. The latter, prompted either by Greek-letter or pecuniary motives, seldom by others, swallows what is profered to him with no questions. Needless to say, such food is ill digested, if at all. At examination time, the student proceeds to spew forth,--there is no better word,--on the examination book the material which he has periodically accumulated. And so it goes on,--this relentless pursuit after courses and credits, equivalent almost to dollars and cents; it goes on producing men who are some day to lead nations and peoples...
...they are there:--there as positive advantages if they can be revived and put to use in one's life profession, but, if they are not so utilized, then still there as a resource of restlessness, vague discontent, lack of interest and zest in one's profession, and so forth. For those interests and accomplishments which are not turned to account and given scope in a man's profession constitute a restless though a "silent" partner. For example, let a man who in his boyhood has been devoted to outdoor sports think twice before he chooses an utterly sedentary career...