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...existing secondary schools. The prevailing school system varies widely in efficiency in different sections of the country; in large cities, such as Boston, New York, and Chicago, it usually fulfills its purpose; but in the scattered rural communities where the "little red schoolhouse" is still considered the ultimate ideal of things scholastic, even the teaching of the three rudimentary R's is often inefficient and unsatisfactory. If this state of affairs is remedied, and an effective system installed which would insure better, more uniform standards from Provincetown to San Francisco, Dean Churchill's educational millenium would be considerably nearer...
Professor Emerton says, "However much one might differ from this or that detail of his opinion, one always felt the purity and loftiness of his ideal, the firmness of his standards, the depth and sincerity of his sympathy...
...highly praiseworthy; the sponsors of the scheme, no doubt, looking abroad upon a naughty world and finding it bad, have decided to establish for themselves a little oasis of purity in the surrounding desert of profane bellhops, jazz-mad chorus girls, and deftfingered, silk-hatted Oakhursts. As an ideal, this is to be commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency...
Naturally enough, a love story ensues in which this curious idealist of the underworld plays opposite the shopgirl, who dimly feels something beyond the flesh, but who can understand clearly only when the flesh is speaking. They quarrel because she cannot comprehend his idealism. They separate. They rejoin again, and for a while it seems as if her way of living triumphs. But in the end it is Carley's ideal that wins. And when he is sent to an insane asylum as a criminal paranoic it is indicated that she understands his attitude. At any rate, she agrees...
...Swope, like all successful business men, is of the opinion that the best results come from methods of fair-dealing, and there was a note of this spirit in his final words. "If you go forth with the ideal that Harvard holds aloft to you in its motto of 'Veritas', it seems to me that you will carry a message to the community, that is worth while carrying and which, in the doing, will give you a great deal of satisfaction...