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Under this title an article in the current number of the "Atlantic Monthly" voices a strong protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there...
...losing. In Continental universities this energy would rather go into a turbulence for causes and ideas, a militant radicalism or even or more militant conservatism that would send Paris students out into the streets with a Call-laux as-sas-sin! 'or tie up an Italian town for the sake of Italia Irredenta. Even the war, though it has called out a fund of antimilitarist sentiment in the American colleges, still tends to be spoken of in terms of an international sporting event. "Who will win? "is the question here...
...fact, which was brought out two years ago by an investigation of the amount of work done by students of various grades, that there is a "C man," something can also be said in favor of the man who is active in other legitimate fields. Scholarship for its own sake will always be followed only...
Speaking of the Lusitania affair he said: "The present incident if correctly represented is a crime against civilization, world order, and international law. Unless Germany makes all reparations we must either follow a policy of absolute isolation, or go to war for the sake of humanity...
...important part played by Prussia in the unifying of what once was a mass of over three hundred principalities. The fundamental principles of German political philosophy, he said, are authority, liberty, and duty. These ideas run through all the forms of German public activity, and it is for their sake that the Teutonic allies are now fighting. Some time was devoted to an explanation of the army system ,which is believed by all Germans to be beneficial. The fundamental idea here is again duty. It is the feeling of every man in the fighting machine that he owes his services...