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...should consider myself conservative in saying that the average Harvard Junior is as mature as the average Williams Senior at commencement time. That may account in some measure for the frequent inability of representatives from the two institutions to understand each other's viewpoints and attitudes toward life. But, as I said, healthy ambitions and ambitions to be healthy exist here...
...understand it, the promotion of professors and their increases in salary depend not upon their ability to teach men or to inspire them to work, but upon their ability to turn out at stated intervals a book upon some subject pertaining to their field of research: Because of this system there is a double temptation for professors to neglect their students, because it is more interesting to write books and it is also their best means of winning a larger salary. The result is that the student, as a human being, is almost entirely neglected. . . . I believe a professor should...
...made about the McKenna duties (TIME, May 11), and that all he sought to do was to revert to the status quo ante and to brand Mr. Snowden's repeal of those duties (TIME, May 12, 1924) as a purely partisan action. Mr. Snowden retorted: "I can well understand that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is incapable of understanding that any person can be moved by honest political convictions." (Torrents of protest from the Government side of the House, loud cries of "withdraw.") Mr. Snowden retorted: "I will follow Mr. Churchill's example and withdraw nothing." Some time...
...President of Cornell University: "Overspecialization. . . . I mean spending so much time on the mechanics of steam engines that we have no time left for studying the mechanics of life. . . . It breaks the country up into different groups. Each group has an absolutely different point of view. They fail to understand each other. This creates animosity and ill will. It is said that if the Germans had not devoted all their time and energy before the War to specialization, they would not been so blind as to have started . . . . We are just beginning to the effects of this over-specialization...
...older English universities are still socially run in a way difficult for Americans to understand. Their members all belong to, or aspire to, a ruling class. Their freshmen have received a secondary education that puts them some eighteen months ahead of ours. No one works his way through Oxford or Cambridge. Almost everyone can look forward to a safe future. Leisure is thus essential in preparation for a life in which struggle is tempered by privilege. All this is perhaps changing; but in comparison with Harvard it will long the true...