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...those responsible for the prosperity of large enterprises are reluctant to lose any part of their control. When they discover that the power has passed from them, or when their government has failed to maintain peace they are then ready for experiment. The protocols and other experiments have always grown out of strikes, usually long and exhausting...
...consulting chemists and geologists, or into the newer fields of industrial research. Still others will be found in literary work or social service. With the increasing recognition of the need of experts in American life, the field has greatly broadened and the demand for highly trained specialists has grown much faster than the supply. A university president once remarked that what we need is not narrow men but broad men sharpened to a point. That is the kind of men the Graduate School seeks to supply...
Innovations at the Union have grown to be so frequent that most of them no longer excite comment. But to-day a test is put on "Harvard indifference" that will be hard to face, without flinching. Even the most callous must blanch at the thought--the Union is installing a system of push-buttons and bell-hops...
...Loyal Coalition and one of its most active workers, is very anxious to give members of the University an opportunity to hear a well-informed speaker on Anglo-American relations discuss the present situation and consequently has arranged this meeting for the purpose. The Loyal Coalition, which has grown from a small group of men to a large and powerful organization, stands for 100 percent Americanism and friendly relations between Great Britain and the United States...
...success of the tutorial system in English universities is primarily due to the fact that those institutions are subdivided into comparatively small groups, or colleges, where it is possible for a student to have much more intimate contact with his teachers than is the case here. . . . These college have grown up in England as the result of a divine accident and cannot very well be foisted ready-made upon an American university. Oxford and Cambridge, moreover, have not the complicated problems arising here out of the fact that graduate students--whose object should be the attainment of specialized knowledge...