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...Seniors still enjoying French leave in the sunshine of the Bermudas or the vintage spots of the Old Dominion, the College has once more assembled. The period of recuperation has set in and it is a sad, sad business. The mail man brings his daily cargo of bills and grade cards, and there is no health...
...There is a certain grade of fools in every church. The Catholic Church has fewer of them than any other church...
...clergyman, also, must undergo an intensive theological training before he receives a degree; afterward his education is still gradual and hard. Then, even if he has reached rare proficiency, his financial recognition is far less than that of an able dentist, is comparable to that of a high-grade mechanic...
...Other important factors of safety: more precise train operations, better signals, elimination of grade crossings, safety-first education...
...discovery of his--nor would he claim it is such--that American colleges, as compared with European institutions, are doing a great deal of work that belongs to the secondary schools. The question is whether, the difference in American life and American practical requirements being considered, this grade of work properly belongs to the secondary schools. Our high schools, and beneath them the elementary schools, are by these fundamental American conditions, which are very practical conditions, compelled to carry as heavy a load as they can bear. Our educational system includes, and apparently must continue to include, scientific, industrial...