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...many times a Senior in reviewing his College career has thought of the opportunities he might have seized, of the benefit he might have derived from the courses he happened to follow. Such things, however, are behind him, and he seldom reconsiders them. He followed a fixed course of training, distributed and concentrated his labors as the rules required, and he is given a certificate at the end to show that he is an educated man, which, after all was the specific thing he worked for. Why should he investigate further...
...Seldom could one find among the members of one college faculty four men more admirably fitted to act as specialists in such an undertaking than Professors Haskins, Coolidge, Dixon and Lord. Their combined knowledge embraces four of the most important questions that will have to be decided at the coming conference: Alsace-Lorraine, Russia, Poland the Balkans and the Far East...
...main obstacle to a smooth working eleven has been the irregularity of practice. Seldom was Coach W. F. Donovan able to get the same eleven on Soldiers Field two nights a week...
Happy-go-lucky Americanism always has been speculative, but seldom a security investor. Here and there is the home owner. Overtopping him by a vast majority has been the renting wage-worker, the spender, the taker of chances and the come-easy-go-easy type of citizen. In a land of abundance, frugality and thrift have held their places only spasmodically and among the minority...
...service. The first would not be so undesirable as an end of education were it not for a materialistic connotation that has grown up with the word. On this basis, college courses offer the means only for intensive and specialized preparation for particular branches of service. Compulsory distribution seldom insures in the average student an intelligent conception of what part he will play in the work of the world or the relation of his labor to that of other people. In other words, the ordinary college graduate lacks that comprehensive view, that general synthesis of human knowledge and understanding which...