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...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 April sixth America is prepared for the decisive stages...
Secondly, we are educated for "efficiency," not service. The first would not be so undesirable as an end of education were it not for a materialistic connotation that has grown up with the word. On this basis, college courses offer the means only for intensive and specialized preparation for particular branches of service. Compulsory distribution seldom insures in the average student an intelligent conception of what part he will play in the work of the world or the relation of his labor to that of other people. In other words, the ordinary college graduate lacks that comprehensive view, that general...
From those first steps a general and lasting friendship has grown up between the service and the civilian public. The barrier between seems to have dropped out of sight for good. For the benefit of those of us who will find it pleasant to enjoy home hospitality after the war, and for the general reputation of the service, let us maintain the high reputation that we enjoy in this and in many another community. --The Oscillator...
...obtainable than it is here. We have sugar from California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan and Ohio; from the Louisiana and Texas cane fields and mills, from Porto Rico and from Hawaii, as well as Cuba; with the result that there is no month in the entire year in which American-grown sugar is not being harvested and moved to market...
...issue of the Yale Alumni Weekly a splendid protest against German influence in American universities is lodged and with it a splendid prophecy that the war will free us from this thralldom. Starting back in the fifties when American students began to study at German universities, this influence has grown until in all too many places it is a distinctly dominant force. The chief objection to the German method as pointed out in this Yale publication is its "soul-less" quality, Efficiency has been the watch-word; masses of information have been the result. This system has not only been...