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...many Harvard men face the world, listening anxiously to the "other fellow's opinion about us. But if we are to criticise Harvard fairly, it might be wiser to search for the underlying philosophy of this University, rather than to measure its fallings by standards created to suit the ideals of other colleges. It has become the fashion, in education, in literature, to attack the "genteel" tradition of New England, to compare it--unfavorably, of course,--with the breezy lack of tradition of the West. And the hostility, the suspicion with which Harvard is regarded, is simply a part...
...Baguio School, which needs three or four instructors, is situated in the mountains of northern Luzon, a day's trip from Manila, five thousand feet in height and of ideal climate. Founded in 1909, the school had grown in influence and its equipment had become complete when its teaching force was diminished with the outbreak of the War. Aiming first as a preparatory school for sons of American families within the Philippines, the school had grown to include boys from other parts of the Far East, Hong Kong, Canton, and even the Malay Archipelago. But in 1917 the school lost...
...education. The Harvard man is presented with a degree as soon as he has passed some seventeen courses, selected with due regard to standard rules of concentration and distribution. In pursuing the prescribed aim, he is liable to lose sight of the fundamental reason for his being here. The ideal of systematized education too often replaces all thought of character and culture...
Silver Bay has been found to be the ideal place for this conference, as there is a place especially designed for meetings of this kind, with 1600 acres of beautiful mountain and lake country, and with 70 buildings constructed for the purpose. Among these buildings is an auditorium seating 1000 persons. Both indoor and outdoor athletic equipment is available...
...agree with Mr. Mason that the ideal for which our young men died was pure and Godly. I am sure he will believe with me that the fate of Socrates and the fate of the Nazarine were merely confirming exceptions, added to which may soon be the fate of Debs, to the great truth that the voice of the people is the voice...