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Just as the skyscraper has grown out of America's industrial and commercial greatness, so, in time, will there develope a style in college architecture to represent America's cultural ideal. What this style will be, time will determine. If it is to be truly representative of America, it must be a pure American expression, without suggestion of European models...
...Each of these parties has a different ideal for the new Germany. The Nationalists do a lot of talking and appear to be powerful, especially as they are at present in office, but the Socialists are really the strongest of the three. The Nationalists are in power today only because the Socialists encountered several difficulties in their application of the Dawes plan, and because the Republicans are supporting the Nationalists for the present...
Since the election of a successor to Professor Baker is a matter of more or less moment to every theatregoer, the Harvard overseers may excuse me for horning in. Mr. Eaton, I think, would be an ideal schoolmaster, and I have but one other suggestion to make. Why not an affiliation between Harvard and the Theatre Guild? Here is an institution, with an expert faculty, representing every branch of the dramatic art, including the audiences. It is an earnest organization, and it has at heart the improvement of the stage and its patrons. It might have time to join with...
...chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction. No newspaper can be a success which fails to appeal to that element of our national life...
...School, the Medical School, the Dental School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The hierarchy of the American educational system is gradually crystallizing; and with wise guidance Harvard College is assuming its own and proper place in that order. It is now free to pursue the high ideal of teaching men "how to live". To Williams and all the other colleges who are still straddling the path it can but offer its present relation to the Graduate vocational schools as evidence of what can and must be done...