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...second article in the series published by the Intercollegiate Civic League is by W. H. Allen, author of "Efficient Democracy" and secretary of the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York City. The title is "Leadership by Intelligence." It is printed below...
...following American colleges and universities have contributed to the preparation of the present staff of the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York City: Amherst, Carleton, Chicago, Clark, Columbia, Cornell, DePauw, Harvard, Iowa, New York, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Smith, Tufts. Berlin, Halle, Leipsic and the Sorbonne have added touches here and there. Just what part did colleges have in fitting the college graduates on our staff for municipal research? During the college days, neither their instructors nor themselves had ever contemplated a work such as that in which they are now engaged. Some of them prepared for law, others for teaching...
...every new person to whom he was presented was greeted by him as if this person might prove to be the friend for whom the seer had been looking, but whom he had hitherto failed to find. The expectation of the serious part of the community today, from the research of the scholar, the insight of the philosopher, and the vision of the prophet working upon the world laid open in the life of the saint, is vast, and it may be, that the Harvard Theological Review will answer this expectation in a new and in a great...
...style known as Harvard brick, laid up with light joints and Flemish bonds. In the basement there is a machine room, supply rooms, a dining room and a kitchen. The second floor contains laboratories, offices, and a directors' room, and the third floor is made up of research rooms...
...unexplored regions of literature, art and science. Ours is the development of "second-string" men, who, while profiting themselves by the words of eminent authorities, will pave the way for a gradual improvement in real scholarship. To our undeveloped minds this ideal seems nobler than devotion to original research, and until financial resources make possible the parallel development of the two ideals, we must hold that the leading authorities of American universities are justified in devoting their energies to the propagation of learning which is valuable although...