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...especial care must be exercised in the estimate of the work which the individual student is capable of doing without waste of time, and in the second place, teachers with sufficient imagination and personality are hard to find. But the search for the latter is worth while, and under ideal conditions it should be possible to furnish the students what they require. The ideal conditions include money for space and equipment. The crowded state of most American high schools would be an unfortunate obstacle to the perfecting of the scheme in this country. But the plan, where it does...
...well-educated man is the man who knows how to use his own language well." The College through English F seems therefore to be furthering President Eliot's ideal. F. W. GKRHART...
...easier to enunciate an ideal than to propose a method of realizing it. But some suggestions seem almost self-evident. It is too early to have anything but general impressions of the success of the scheme permitting high rank men from qualified schools to enter Harvard on certificate; but those general impressions would indicate that the defects of the plan overbalanced its virtues. To turn to a different proposal, it is something of a question, in view of the apparent necessity for English F, why the College has not yet seen fit to adopt its committee's recommendation that...
...Force is the ideal of the West, whereas it is spurned in the East. Here it has been put upon a pedestal and made a God. The West has raised up a monster which has all but destroyed it. The best minds in the East have ever stood against this principle, trying like Ghandi to live as Christ did; while the best minds in the West endorse...
...speaker closed with a plea for the revision of accepted ideals. He compared the beauty of the Eastern conception of happiness as a condition of the mind and of the soul with the Western ideal of happiness in external things. "It is the universal view of the West that Western civilization in superior to Eastern. Why cannot people consider the possibility of being mistaken in their attitudes and views, and begin to look at things in a fresh with an open mind for beauty, inspiration...