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Presumably, however, the plan at Columbia has been drawn up to provide such necessary machinery. But there still remains a valid objection to the scheme as a whole. Of course, practical business men wil decry it as making education a soft sinecure--or a softer sinecure than they say education is at present. The objection does not follow naturally, but it may follow in this case and so throw discredit on the whole trend of the collegiate educational system. The proposal to abolish examinations has come not through evolution and the gradual growth of the desire the learn...
...UP?The soft accents and the hard hearts of Carolina hill folk expressing a primitive patriotism when feud hatred is drowned by the bugle...
...What this candidate really believed and would like to have said was that he was wholly and strongly opposed to the antivivisection movement, that he considered it the worst sort of nonsense, that anti-vivisectionists generally are misguided, soft-headed people who are working against the real interests of humanity and checking the advance of science...
...make this country blind to the need for efficient land and sea force. But even if it is natural, it is not likewise sensible. The lesson which the war taught--that unpreparedness is infinitely costly both in lives and gold--should not be relegated to the dust of time. Soft-headed pacifists are as harmful in peace as in war. To reawaken the slumbering interest in the value and the need of an efficient navy, this day, the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, has again been set apart as Navy Day. In Boston and Brooklyn and other Navy Yard cities...
...Edison in his latest interview explodes as usual into flying criticisms of the soft-headed youth of this lax age. As usual he is interesting, but interesting particularly in his inability to fathom psychological intricacies as he has fathomed the mysteries of mechanical invetion. It is easy to put faith in his prophetic vision when he says that the immense development of hydro-eletric power now in progress may lead within a score of year to a four hour working day. But when he prophecies that the younger generation will "spend that shortness basely" few who have either faith...