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...student body from 4,000 to 8,000, its endowment from $20,000,000 to $126,000,000. New buildings mushroomed-libraries, dormitories, museums, laboratories. On the human side, President Lowell's heart was with his undergraduates and he wanted to shape them in his own pattern-cultured, public-spirited and, if possible, scholarly gentlemen of Boston...
Following the general pattern of the League of Nations at Geneva, five committees will be organized to discuss legal and constitutional questions, technical organizations, political subjects, general humanitarian questions, and the German refugee problem. Committee I has chosen for its topic "Reorganization of the League," while Committee II has split into two subcommittees, the first to discuss an economic question and the second to consider "Intellectual Cooperation." "Mandates" is the subject picked by the political Committee and Committee IV has undertaken the consideration of "The Opium Convention." The subject of "German Refugees" has been delegated to a special group...
...executing the fruit-wine trade, Mr. Miller set the first pattern for other quota bargainings between foreign liquor exporters and U. S. agricultural exporters...
...there is one truth, moulding and informing all studies, and that it can be taught as a unified whole through a series of correct answers which dovetail with a series of questions. These colleges served the purpose of preparation for the vocational training of the universities. In England the pattern was changed, as other things were changed, by the impact of the Reformation; the universities became bundles of colleges, where wider intellectual curiosity was educated by tutors and reading rather than by a regular journey over a number of fixed bodies of fact...
...some ability to relate the pale facts of study to the realities of life. In short, the ideal Graduate School would merely provide a fertile ground for the development of a man's work, and would not box it or trim it, or force it into any prearranged pattern...