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...work of investigating the settlements, reporting their needs, and the progress or failure of our men was most efficiently taken care of by the committee of superintendents. Excellent reports were handed in, covering every settlement with which we deal. These reports gave not only the list of men whom we had enlisted at the settlements, but also all others doing social service in any way connected with the University. In most cases a very helpful criticism of the way in which the work of the club was administered was given also...
...conference should start with no presuppositions other than a sincere desire to discover the true causes for the present war and the means of averting similar conflicts in the future. Working on these premises, under the leadership of such sound thinkers as have, agreed to attend the meetings, some progress at least should be made toward the discovery of means for the peaceful settlement of international disputes. Of hardly secondary importance to agreement upon the form which the promotion of international justice and world organization should take, is the necessity for educating public opinion at large in a truer understanding...
...assistants --although men of scholarly promise--are appointed rather for their high records than for their ability to instruct. The tendency is to treat assistantships merely as graduate scholarships, given to aid men who are doing research work for higher degrees; and the professor is more concerned with the progress of that research work than with the teaching which the assistant does...
...only one which accords with the principle of academic freedom. I hope the time will come when you and your colleagues in Germany will recognize that this course is the only right one: and that it is essential to the cause of universal scholarship and human progress that scholars should associate together again on friendly terms, without regard to national conflicts that have occurred. Very truly yours, A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...
...universally towards guidance and help to the average man at the possible expense of the single genius. The "make or break" theory is no longer in fashion. Therefore, all innovations making for a higher general average of undergraduate efficiency and success are to be considered as in line with progress...