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Harvard, in its system of concentration and distribution has taken the stand that the college's function is to provide a background and create a vision which will enable the student to enter the professional ranks, but it makes no pretence to a high degree of proficiency in any limited subject. With specialization practically inevitable later in life, the highest service which the college can render is in the development of resources and an ability to grasp the real meaning of problems as they present themselves. In this sense the college's job is not professional training...
With the new Austro-German tariff pact so much to the forefront in the news of the world the Vagabond feels that he would do well to polish up a bit on the historical background of the present controversy. He can see in the unseemly haste which France has displayed in protesting the new agreement a recurrence of that dread of German power which she felt so acutely prior to 1914. Perhaps that dread was not unbased. The Vagabond proposes to hear Professor Artz discuss the last years of the heyday of German Imperialism this morning. The place is Harvard...
There followed orchestra music and through this background the announcer said something about the "March of Time." This gave me a suspicion and hope that it was a TIME program, although I did not know that TIME was on the air. With the presentation of the dramatic episodes in court and city-room at the sale of the New York World I became more and more convinced that here was a program which would do credit to TIME even if it were not TIME'S own reportorial effort...
...Washington newsman is a sturdier Republican than Correspondent Joslin. Yet his appointment was one of utility, not politics. President Hoover has known him as a hardworking, level-headed writer since the pre-Coolidge days when Joslin used to come periodically to the Department of Commerce to get anonymous "background" on current problems from "The Chief." As a White House contact-man, Secretary Joslin knows how to handle news and people...
...education. For, unlike the artisan in medieval days, the modern man is unable to draw any real enjoyment from his work, and consequently he must look for it in another direction. When vocational specialization is carried down into a man's early years he can not form the general background necessary for a balanced life. If industry pursues this policy it will do so to its own disadvantage, for efficiency is reduced when the worker is limited to the sphere of his machine...