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...geratest problems," said Doctor Hopkins, "which the American college faces in the present day is to preserve its function as an educational institution to an extent that shall give its men the proper outlook on life and shall steel their wills and harden their minds against the tendencies toward materialism which are bred in a period of so great economic surplus as is the present period in America...
...education to scan the far horizon; it is the obligation of education, if need be, to undergo attack, to accept contempt, and to endure derision from contemporaries who are more interested in maintaining their own opinions than they are in knowing what is really so. It is the function of education, when error is found, to denounce it; it is the privilege of education, when truth is found, to proclaim...
...life worth living which he seldm falls to observe. The average student does not seek a liberal education with the primary purpose of being a tool of mankind. The ability to reason is the unique human attribute, and according to Aristotle happiness is relative to the exercise of this function. Certainly the educated and cultured man, whether rightly or not, feels that his life is preferable to that of the most comfortable and opulent moron. The choice of being Socrates unhappy or a contented pig is not a tactful problem to present to the business sceptic. The college, then, justifies...
...crime still further. He made suggestions which, if adopted, will constitute a departure almost as notable in criminology as was the substitution of vaccine for leeches in the treatment of smallpox. Governor Smith proposed that the New York Crime Commission be empowered to: 1) Take away from judges the function of sentencing convicts. 2) Assign that function to a board of specialists-psychiatrists, crime students-whose salaries would be commensurate with the responsibility reposed in them. Governor Smith proposed $25,000 per annum each, the figure to which New York has just raised its chief executive's pay. Psychiatry...
...body and to have the Committee number eight instead of the usual seven was made known by the Junior officers of the Class of 1928, with whom the matter rested. It was felt that a new election was unnecessary as the addition to the Committee would not affect its function...