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Eastern colleges should find little comfort in Mr. Tunis's article, for they must admit both the charges to a certain degree. Although most eastern universities possess many courses of undeniably modern scope, the general tendency is to look into the past with such absorption as to be blinded to its relation with the present. No denial of the accusation of materialism is conceivable in face of the huge construction work at Harvard and Yale and its contagious effect on the attitude of smaller colleges. But in general, it may be said, that their position is far less discouraging than...
Something--either a desire for monumental self-glorification or a failure to comprehend the full scope of university needs--makes philanthropists give magnificent edifices at times when institutions can best employ funds in other, less ostentatious ways. For increase in the general operating funds universities must look chiefly to small donors, though occasionally their contribution is overshadowed by large unrestricted gifts. Eventually, we hope, more men of great wealth will spend less lavishly and more wisely. In the meanwhile small contributors need not be abashed or deterred by external signs of wealth; their money in class endowment and alumni funds...
...books are on the shelves. Here one is offered intimacy with our literary heritage and at the same time is allowed to follow what is newest in the of poetry. When the University has such a potential force for development as this, no unnecessary limitations should define its scope...
...students in economics has been made in the shape of the committee to discuss economic questions. The chief value of the Assembly, however, is still for the collegian who, while his activities do not lie directly in these fields, possesses an intelligent interest in current affairs of international scope, and for him who desires to acquire some insight into the bases and conditioning forces of contemporary problems without so much consideration of technical points as will make such discussions tiresome or incomprehensible. The technique of procedure in the Model Assembly, as in the actual workings of the League itself, revolves...
...year. When an employe is laid off for reasons other than his own, a trade dispute or an act of God, he may draw up to $10 per week for a maximum of ten weeks. The plan may operate voluntarily if 175,000 workers are placed within its scope before June...