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...might be of interest to your readers to know that Technocracy is far from a new idea. Edward Bellamy, in his books Looking Backward and Equality, written 50 years ago. gives a clear and complete picture of the plan in operation...
...some students are not satisfied with the present arrangement, I see no point in obliging them to take tutorial work. But to make general examinations entirely optional is a step backward toward slovenly dilettantism...
...Reverend Francis L. Patton was elected president of Princeton. At that time the college was beginning to feel keenly the tug of new winds of liberal doctrine, and in the words of one who was a Freshman at the time. "It seemed a backward step to take a man with a white lawn tie, a black frock coat, side whiskers and the pallor of a medieval monk, to preside over a college devoted chiefly to the liberal arts." Patton had been a Presbyterian pastor, and a professor in the Princeton Theological School; he had a claustral and philosophic austerity that...
...unable to speak to anyone. My confidence was gone. A teacher spelled my name with two 'f's' although it had only one, yet I became so backward I was unable to correct her and therefore spelled it out with two 'f's' throughout my school career...
FLOWERING WILDERNESS-John Galsworthy-Scribner ($2.50 ). Many a reader who was captivated by the Forsyte Saga into following cheerfully at Author Galsworthy's heels wishes now that his leader would sit down and take a well-earned rest. Having finally, after several backward glances, parted from the Forsytes, Galsworthy has now taken up with the Cherrells. has fastened on them with a bulldog grip. Maid in Waiting began it; Flowering Wilderness continues what bids fair to be an over-lengthy serial. Dinny Cherrell, too young to wed in the first book, makes a bold bid for it this time...