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...Probably very few of these houses are endowed, and even those that are owned outright will be a terrific financial burden to their owners, if it is impossible to make the houses self-sustaining through rental income. Very few organizations are financially independent to the extent that they can afford to use their houses exclusively for social purposes. A certain income is mandatory, which means that initiation fees will have to be increased to so exorbitant a degree that membership will off that account be not desirable. The alternative will be for the fraternities and clubs to disband, after selling...
...which the present organization of the Council left open. It has been rightfully felt that the round table discussions and entertainments of the last two years have not been adequate to creating the more intimate relationship between foreign and native-born students which a less formal arrangement might afford...
That such an institution is necessary in a complete university is growing more and more apparent. With the drama becoming of increasing importance as an intelligent means of expression. Harvard can not afford to continue in its attitude of haughty indifference to the value of the theatre as a cultural medium. Although at the present the proposed school can not be a part of the University, the identification of its supporters indicates that among the alumni there is a wide spread desire to perpetuate Harvard's dramatic prestige...
WHOOPEE STOP TIME HOW MANY GIRLS DO YOU KNOW WHO COULD AFFORD A LIFE OF LUXURIOUS EASE WHO CHOOSE INSTEAD THE EXACTING LIFE OF A PROFESSIONAL PIANIST STOP THE SHOTWELL SAGA WHICH YOU QUOTE HAS ONLY BEGUN FOR PIANIST SHOTWELL IS AMERICAN BORN OF MAYFLOWER STOCK AND MONEY HAS NEVER BEEN HER STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT EITHER IN HER LIVING HER FRIENDS OR HER MUSIC...
...ever had little use for a fugitive and cloistered learning that never sallies out and seeks its adversary: Life. Experimental knowledge, says he, is the most authentic, the only kind actually worth much. "Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all." The vital office of philosophy today, says philosopher-educating Dewey, is "to search out . . . the obstructions" in life; to focus reflection upon needs congruous to present life; to interpret the conclusions of science with respect to their consequences...