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...Secretary for the Colonies was the first Labor Minister to attend a social function and was, therefore, the cynosure of all eyes. Responding to the toast of "Colonial Secretaries, Past and Present," he said: "Having accepted the seals of office, and looking back over the past five days, I am more proud of our Empire than I ever was before we passed through this momentous period. A sort of bloodless revolution has taken place. The most that has been spilled...
There is, however, an uncomfortable flavor of fact in Mr. Zangwill's charges. But "the remedy", he says, "is to make people care. . . . The younger generation must set the standard. . . . They should participate in politics and take an active part in law making, and it should be the function of the schools and colleges to prepare them for this undertaking...
...That a gold bank should be established by mobilizing reserves of gold and foreign currencies, at present serving no economic function, and by an introduction of foreign capital...
...University, Mr. Lee will give a number of special lectures. On Tuesday evening, February 5, he will lecture at the Union under the auspices of the Business School; while on the evenings of February 6 and 8, he will talk in Pierce 110 on subjects connected with the function of publicity in business. In addition, he will hold numerous conferences with Business School students for vocational advice...
...other hand, the talk of making colleges mere laboratories for the lecture-publisher is not alarming. The colleges will always retain their function of supplying the mental stimulus for true education; and unless there is this stimulus, any number of bales of printed lectures is so much paper and little else. If the time has come when the printed lecture can supplant the spoken lecture, can arouse as much interest, command as undivided attention, the colleges will do well to revise their courses and weed out their lecturers. The personality of a great professor is often the determining factor...