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...doubtless true that it will not, like the technical education, assure anyone of an immediate and fairly lucrative place in the production machine of the nation. Engineers, draughts men, and accountants and their ilk are in constant demand. But the very fact that they have been trained in one sole field usually keeps them engineers, drafts men and accountants. For the positions at the top, it is the knowledge of human nature and human relations and the hospitality to new ideas which a liberal education is supposed to give that are necessary. Such an education naturally does not guarantee such...
...Both these facts,--that the news of Europe is incomplete and that it is politically riddled--have contributed to the national misunderstandings of Europe. But that is not the sole cause. It must be remembered that national misunderstandings existed long before newspapers...
COOLIDGE FOR FIFTY MILLION BUSHEL WHEAT CREDIT FOR GERMANY. COOLIDGE WARMLY FAVORS AMERICAN WHEAT FOR STARVING GERMANY. Such were the headlines appearing in the German press to put heart into suffering Teutons. In Berlin, U. S. magnanimity was the sole topic of a single day. The announcements were premature, being possible but not yet probable. In any case relief measures, if undertaken, will be upon a sound economic basis...
...Italian factions lined up according to the logic of this double management. There were intrigues, counter-intrigues, petitions to the Board of Directors, blasts in the newspapers. At the end of the season Gatti was reengaged. The Board of Directors made it clear that he would continue as sole manager...
...education is not something to be driven into anyone's head, and nobody can be forced to work hard unless his interest is aroused to the necessary pitch. Raising the standard of scholarship is mistaking the real cause, for scholarship is not the sole ingredient of an education. Since to the true student all life is an education, knowledge is to be acquired both inside the classroom and out. When all angles of college life are made an adventure, the four years will become the privilege of doing hard but interesting and valuable labor...