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Other schools, other ways. Other Headmasters attain their ends by other means. At Taft School is the Rev. Arthur Howe, famed Hotchkiss and Yale football star, who, were he not already bound to Taft, would be a likely successor to Dr. Buehler. Howe's method is one of personal comradeship with the boys. In this he follows his chief-Horace D. Taft (brother of "Bill" and "Charlie"). Headmaster Taft is, after the Hotchkiss manner, called the King, but his authority rests on a Garibaldian affection rather than on a Cavourian dominance. The head of Groton is Dr. Peabody. "The Rector...
...veritable state of bondage was the theme of a recent address by Dr. Leroy Burton, president of the University of Michigan. The impossibility of any self-determination in the matter of curricula prevents the student with initiative and capable faculties reaching the intellectual heights he might attain if given free reign. Dr. Burton would give the upperclassman freedom from the group course restrictions and would allow him to follow the dictates of his own enthusiasm...
...experiments in diction and in metaphor seek the sharply out effects which are the glory of the Imagists,--and frequently attain them. Lowell writes of the advantage which the early risers of literature have over us moderns in gathering words while the dew is still fresh on them. When a word which once had a single exact meaning has been worked to nervous prostration what can we do but invent either a new word or a new use of an old one? When the best metaphors have become an old story, what can we do but bring together in fresh...
...enough for college dramatic clubs and workshops merely to advance the mechanical technique of staging plays. A race of dramatists is even more necessary. If the prediction to Halcott Glover that by a rebirth of idealism drama will be swung from its morbid tendency to realism and attain its true "place in human and international under standing" is correct, it would seem that the first signs of a dramatic revival ought to appear in the work of college and universities; for seeds of idealism find but scant nourishment along. Broadway Should Princeton's new theatre inspire talented dramatists as well...
...wish I could be a little more "liberal". So: let the undergraduate hear the most radical men to be found, (whether bright or stupid), and let them hear a reasonable number of bright conservatives. Then perhaps when they begin the inevitable swing to the Right they will attain a true liberalism,--a virtue rarely found anywhere at the moment...