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...Washington Conference in the interests of world disarmament, he pointed out that the achievements of the Arms Parley were but a step in the right direction. "All the Conference has done is to cooperate with other nations in giving us cheaper wars. It has certainly changed the international medium, and has established trust and confidence where none previously existed. Hitherto each nation competed with its neighbor because each nation feared the neighbor. Under the veil of competition there lay a feeling of distrust, a lack of confidence. Now that stumbling block to international harmony has been done away with...
...present dangers of college athletics is a tendency to make it the main advertising medium of the college. The measure of the football team is made the measure of the college. It is even played up in endowment campaigns as a ruling motive in the appeal for support. Stripped of all its camouflage the proposition is simply this: The college wants money; if we can put together a winning football team it will help to get it. The alumni want the college to win and are willing to pay to see it win. Then follows what we are all familiar...
...women, some of whom are educators and several of whom are writers. They evidently brought fresh minds to their task, and their conclusions and recommendations are singularly unconventional. The chief one is mentioned above. Even lessons in mathematics or science can be, and ought to be, made a medium of instruction in the English language...
...great value of the motion picture as an educational medium has long been recognized but very little used. There are very few reels in existence which are of true educational value and yet sufficiently interesting so as not to bore the audience to tears. The Yale authorities, however, have decided to go into competition with the "vamp", and not allow the great possibilities of the cinema to any longer go to waste...
...cannot crush the creative instincts of men. They are bound to get it in their pleasure or leisure hours, and it is a question whether they are going to get it by the cheap, false, artificial motion-picture, or through the more elevated medium of the drama...