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...machine had trouble and did not get up. I had a nice little joy ride. The country is beautiful from 5,000 feet. With the school below you, you see the lakes and woods and only a few miles off the ocean and Bay of A--. It makes one want to head west and start right across. You see the line of breakers and the sand-bars and dunes...
...state. Our theory of government has made it easy for us to forget that such a thing as the state exists. Many people in this country as in Europe have been surprised by their own feelings of patriotism. We have looked on these feelings with some suspicion. What we want to do is to bolster them up with adequate reasons. We must attempt to make vivid what the state means to its citizens...
...Holmes recognized the young man's determination and capacity for the business in hand, but he adds, "I think the Corporation and Overseers will have to hold him in a little, or he will want to do too many things at once...
...glad that you are getting up these groups," said President Lowell before a mass meeting of University men in the New Lecture Hall last evening. "I am glad because it shows that you want to know what is going on and wish to be ready to take part in the struggle. I suppose that nobody doubts that we went into the war unprepared. Let us hope that when the war ends we will not be unprepared for peace...
...fact an appeal for a Short-Cut to Knowledge. As wiser heads know, there is no such detour. The path of the regular curriculum is the one highway leading to the real Castle of Comprehension, if it leads anywhere at all. The students say they want the road. Cannot they be made to see what that way is by the guidance of the discussion groups? --Boston Transcript...