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...than heretofore. Relieved of the necessity of cramming for college board examinations, they can survey the fields that lie beyond their schoolboy courses, and can learn to think farther ahead towards their mental fulfillment than tomorrow's recitation. Further, they can prepare themselves in language requirements so as to avoid compulsory language courses in their freshman year...
...official could approve of a naval holiday that would thus result. But an obvious although perhaps not the basic explanation would be that President Hoover, in spite of his partiality to fact-finding commissions, had not taken the precaution to have such an analysis made. ... It is natural to avoid the finding and facing of facts that may refute one's fancies...
...make a public correction of his misstatement and his apology therefor. It is desirable for the public to know the character of this indirect campaign of misinformation to defeat the efforts of the Administration for reduction of the Federal expenditures not immediately essential in order that we may avoid increased taxation...
...since it accomplished a geographical distribution that included for the first time a freshman from Mississippi. An institution where groups of men from different districts are brought together is obviously better and more broadening than a college composed of men entirely from a limited locality. It is easy to avoid the provincialism of some of the Western colleges by any process that is based on a modified quota system. But such a method is not making for progress in college standards...
...Neill, an experimenter at heart, seldom uses exactly the same method twice. He is voracious. Life, and life as portrayed in the theatre, is a business that must be attacked on many fronts. The only thing that serious Mr. O'Neill can inevitably be counted on to avoid is a touch of humor. Like his fellow-Hibernian Synge, he loves "all that is salt in the mouth, all that is rough to the hand, all that heightens the emotions by contest, all that stings into life the sense of tragedy...