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...Last year in a convention in Canada one of your leading American educators said that it was less dangerous in a nation to have second class brains than to have second class character. I cannot agree with this. For an ideal community consisting of ideal individuals there may be something in it, but we are not living in an ideal world. We are living in a hard, exacting, tremendously complicated world, in which problems, values, and issues are so diversified, interwoven, obscure often, that character alone is not a sure and practical guarantee, unless...
...Atlantic City was that in which he pointed out the emphasis placed on character development in American education, as compared with that which the training of intelligence receives abroad. The high pay of athletic coaches, upon which Professor Morize commented unfavorably, is probably another manifestation of the same ideal through participation in sport...
...either civilization to attempt to do anything more than call attention to the existence of a difference in thought and issue an appeal for tolerance and understanding on both sides seems futile. But while the adjectives "stupid" and "unmoral" will doubtless still be hurled by extreme supporters of each ideal, their numbers will not be large enough to make mutual appreciation impossible...
...opinion of Dr. James H. Breasted, who has just returned from a four months stay in Egypt, that "the race that launched a thousand ships" belonged not to a poetic ideal but to a very real person, may lie the seeds of a possible renascence of interest in the study of Greek. Dr. Breasted believes from examinations which he has been conducting among the entombed records of Tut-ankh-amen that Helen of Troy actually lived, and that the much doubted Trojan war was considerably more than a mere fight of fancy on the part of Homer...
...able to look beyond his own nose. Since the primary benefit was expected to accrue to those yet unborn, five years is no test at all. It is up to us to lay aside our appetites and personal desires to an increasing extent as we progress toward the ideal of society, else we shall retrogress or at best stand still...