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...elective system was made practically necessary by the huge expansion of the field of knowledge which took place in the nineteenth century. It was no longer possible to make any pretense that a four-year curriculum could supply the elixir of all learning "in a pint pot." A certain range of choice was inevitable. The wide expansion of the system, however, which opened up virtually all subjects to the student's choice, was the result of a theory, an educational dogma. This dogma was of Teutonic origin-a result of the "scientific culture" of modern Germany. Method was exalted above...
Aside from diplomatic circles, the field that lends itself best to the establishing of friendly international relations is probably the field of education. Exchange professors between the leading universities started international educational association many years ago, and nor plans are emerging from the great melting pot of war to follow up the initial advances...
...president of the Harvard Advocate, I must protest against the attitude assumed by the CRIMSON regarding the preposterous "tempest in a tea-pot" occasioned by the anonymity of the red-covered Harvard Magazine. It is the policy of the Advocate to "live and let live." The Harvard Advocate has no quarrel with the Harvard Magazine (white). The fact that both strive to be literary papers is, I am aware, excellent ground in which to plant rumors. But the Harvard Magazine reaps in fields other than those from which the Advocate procures its harvest. The Advocate, as one man, agrees with...
...that these schools are rapidly becoming of much more interest to college men. But they have always been of very vital interest to the nation, because in them the great majority of the people have received whatever schooling has come to them. They have served as the melting-pot for the Americanization of our large foreign population. In the past they have had teachers of a very high grade of intelligence and education. But conditions have changed. The teaching profession has become one of the most desperately underpaid occupations in the community. Last year in Massachusetts there were 1800 teachers...
...such a bill has appeared in Congress it has secured stronger support, so that the present immigration bill is very likely to become law in the next few months. Its purpose is to safeguard the present and future of America from the dangerous accumulation of material, which the melting pot cannot assimilate. Without such provision, this un-American element may continue its present, open and secretabuse of the liberty which every individual possesses under the American system of government, a system whose over throw is plotted, though the plotters for the most part are totally ignorant of its most fundamental...