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...live to see the day when such courses as the following will be taught in Cambridge. They are certainly useful and yet they will not unduly strain the student's mind if he is careful of himself during the summer: Economics 303, or Advanced Muckraking; Geology 93, or the Geological Significance of the Egg of the Domestic Hen; Comme II Faut 17b, or the study of Male Headgear, Civilian and Military...
...most plastic stage of manhood, when it would seem they ought to be willing to accept a man at his own value--according to that man's ability, his intellectual vigor, his social capacity. Is this the case, or is there not rather a wide gulf between those who live in the little frame houses in out-of-the-way streets, and those who inhabit the gold coast; those who make the clubs, and those who don't? One could hardly object if the aristocracy of the College were one of intellect, but I am sure that Mr. Lloyd knows...
...Either a man is much more than a livelihood earner or he might as well be dead. Beyond getting his living a man must live his life. He must be a citizen and a human being...
...last decade there has been a steadily deepening conviction that dead languages are out of place in a living civilization. Public opinion has demanded that education should be more practical, that it should train men for increased usefulness in the nation. Modern languages, literature, science, history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century...
...great misfortune is that we cannot keep two things in mind at once. We must educate for life. Very well. We must teach--the money making, livelihood-earning vocations. Good. But can a man or woman live by broad alone...