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...considered basis of our future policy". Undesirable as this promised condition may be to certain elements of our population, the great majority must look forward to it. History has shown too conclusively that agriculture is the foundation of every strong nation. If the United States is to settle the problem of the ever-increasing city with its parasites, this is the sanest method of doing so. To give the farmer power will mean a return of interest in the farm, as well as a less politically governed national policy. No harm has ever yet come from a sensible "back...
...with a dozen Curleys, Hylans and Thompsons for every executive of real ability like Nathan Matthews and John Purroy Mitchell. If Senator Walsh rightly interprets the sentiment of American voters, if they prefer to see college men who ought to be able to become intelligent reformers, avoid the problem, then we shall have plenty of time to keep on paying the bill for incompetency and graft...
That America, the only rested nation, must take the first step to solve the labor problem of war-weary Europe, and must realize that a solution demands good will combined with information and intelligence was the conclusion reached by Mr. Whiting Williams in a talk on "Experiences in the Mines of France and the Saar Valley" before the Graduate Schools Society in Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon. Mr. Williams, following the method of studying labor conditions that he used in the United States and Great Britain, worked as a laborer in the mines of the Saar Valley...
President Lowell's report offers an abundance of food for thought. His remarks on educational methods, while less startling than other topics, offer some sound suggestions. Concretely, they are a defence of the old method of teaching by problem rather than by precept. "We learn to do by doing," he says. A degree of self-service in education is often of far more value than an equivalent amount of forcible feeding. The course in which a student must work out the answers to questions for himself, instead of learning the answers by rote, has many advantages: it is an agreeable...
...self-sufficient and examinations a non-essential. Unfortunately, the theory is far removed from fact. The "average" college man must not only be given a chance to acquire an education; he must be provided a means of acquiring it and a stimulus to its acquisition. Both of these a problem method of instruction provides...