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Built on the high hills of feminine superiority, the ideal home of the Akron University co-ed stands ready to receive her and the spouse of her choice. The walls will always glisten with clean white paint, for the male selected to preserve the material sanctity of this home must be qualified with an income of at least two thousand five hundred dollars a year. Unfortunately there must remain one vestige of the archaic male predominance, for the vulgar advantage of physical strength still cannot be argued away even by the eloquence of Lucy Stone. But no more concessions...
There is an old legend of a Prince that sought his lady love in a tall tower east of the sun and west of the moon. At the present time there are still many young people who are searching for an ideal that seems to be just as securely hidden. The modern youth movement since the war has been attempting to turn the world upside down to find its princess of liberty, and there is every indication that she too is hiding in that ancient stone tower. At any rate, the governments of Europe especially are tiring of this excitement...
Uncle Geebee has a great big surprise for you kiddies this morning. He is going to tell you all about Peter Pan--the boy who wouldn't grow up. Well, kiddies, Peter was sent to college; and that was just ideal. For of course, at college one doesn't work; one just pretends to be sophisticated; one doesn't grow up,--one becomes what some call indifferent. This was wonderful for Peter, for he didn't want ever...
...interrelation of sovereignty, property, power, and conflict which Mr. Hawtrey and Norman Angell suggest as basic causes of war. A general understanding of economics appears to be the simplest, sanest, and most significant educational advocacy among the recent flood of innovations and proposed experiments. With it will come the ideal of having the world think of economic ends in terms, not of individual power, but of international welfare...
Under the title "Utopia College: A Prospectus" Dean Hibbard of the University of North Carolina pictures in the current number of the Outlook and Independent his conception of what the ideal college should be. First he pays tribute to the experiments in progressive education now being conducted along various lines at Harvard, Wisconsin, Swarthmore, and other institutions, which are to a considerable extent embodied in his own plan. The prime purpose of Utopia College is the avowed one of all modern universities; namely, to stimulate intelligent thinking. In pursuit of this fundamental end, however, Dean Hibbard proposes a radical innovation...