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...place Mr. du Fais would do away with all old buildings which have outgrown their usefulness and are merely kept for the sake of tradition. In this class he places Grays Hall and Boylston Chemical Laboratory. If they were torn down he thinks that their site would be the ideal location for the proposed Memorial Church or Chapel, since the chapel would be placed in approximately the center of University life...
...never come if the force of young minds is consistently turned into certain preconceived channels. The Public School is a place for training the mind to make its own decision on any problems that may arise and not for imposing upon the mind the decisions of others. This ideal of intellectual freedom is unattainable in a world where everyone is convinced of the absolute truth of all his own beliefs, but the ideal should be kept in sight, not cast lightly away...
...guarantees that it will not be another halfhearted attempt to alter matters for the better. And looking at the special circumstances of the University's nearness to Boston there seems to be every reason for predicting success to the reorganized bureau. Once its aims are fully realized the American ideal of education for all who desire it will not seem as Utopian in Cambridge as it may seem...
...Rhodes Scholars and a scattering of British notables-Viscount Grey, Viscount Milner, Rudyard Kipling. It seemed that Greene had given the impression that, to all Americans attending it, Oxford was a disappointment; that all were eager to be home again; that the Fabian Society (Socialist) was the British ideal most acceptable to Americans; that Ramsay MacDonald was to Americans the ideal British statesman. A heavyset, earnest young man arose, addressed the chair. Soft-voiced, but serious, this was one Edward Egan, Yale Rhodes Scholar at New College, incidentally the amateur heavyweight boxing champion of all Britain. Egan begged to inform...
...Industry is on the way toward individual direction and ownership. Agriculture has continuously maintained its individualistic character and among the farming artels neither the character of the families engaged for the quality of the finally measurable returns lead the most enthusiastic doctrinaire to expect any strengthening of the collectivist ideal among the people of Russia...