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...that Mr. Hoover is a "stand-patter"--far from it. He is however, a man of wide experience, clear thinking and great devotion to liberty, and it is because he possesses these qualities that his opinions on civilization are of value. The belief he here states is that of all social philosophies now featured Individualism is the only true one. By this he means American Individualism; the doctrine that allows every man, unrestricted by class strata or any prejudices, an equal opportunity with others to make his way in the world. It is not, as Mr. Hoover points...
Moreover the movement is wide spread. Tuxedos are out of favor in Berlin, and the social world is revolving on an orbit of hired dress suits. Oregon, after abolishing private schools, has taken a fling at convention and outlawed finger-bowls as "filthy and dangerous and tip-inducing." So important has the question become that a Representative in Congress is encountering serious opposition as candidate for majority leader solely because he owns too many sack suits and has them repaired too often...
...School, in contrast to most, requires a bachelor's degree of all its students, and the Department calls for a wide field of distribution from its members. The attempt is being made to produce architects who will know better than to design a skyscraper of beautiful proportions, with nothing but a medieval spiral staircase to the top floor; and who may, nevertheless have a knowledge of architectural types prior to the Victorian era. With similar intent, a solid background of literature and history is required of all students concentrating in Fine Arts...
...younger American poets." He is already above and far beyond the University group, yet still close enough to his undergraduate days to be claimed by the present college generation. His classmate, Mr. Dos Passos, has issued two volumes of prose and one of verse which have earned him wide notice, at least as an earnest experimenter. Mr. McLane, whose student days are still more recent, has three books of verse to his credit. This is the roll of poets alone --and a partial one at that. It indicates no renaissance, perhaps, but I gives evidence of a healthy, normal growth...
Perhaps the best known characteristic of Antioch College was next discussed by President Eliot: its division into two distinct parts, the students spending half their time in study and half in paid employment. The element of half time work has wide scope and would affect very much the life and education in both our own and other countries especially as regards endowment and support of schools...