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...coming to the conquest and colonization of America he called especial attention to the influence of Indian themes upon the imagination of the invaders, and later on as a native literature springs up, the influence of the new spirit on old Castillian thought, subtle, perhaps, as lacking in basic matter sufficient for one to call by the name of literary phenomenon, but nevertheless, appreciable.. Speaking of hispanic-American literature before the War for Independance, the speaker passed in quick review authors, works, and schools from Sr. Juana Ines de la Cruz in Mexico to Rodo in Uruguay, Chocano...
...tools and a certain proficiency with which he may better realize his ultimate potentialities in life. That this latter sort is the kind which is necessary and desirable today is beyond dispute. Life is becoming complicated to the point where tools and selective judgement are vital. The medieval whose basic creed denied legitimacy to the temporal things of this earthly life could well afford to regard his education as something apart: today, with different standards and different conditions to be met, such an attitude must inevitably mean suicide...
Last week, however, these organizations through representatives got together in Manhattan and took the first steps towards a national conference of Jewish religious organizations, resolved that: "We representatives, . . . recognizing the fundamental spiritual unity which binds us as Jews, believing that the synagogue is the basic and essential unit in our Jewish life, and believing in the desirability of taking counsel together for the sacred purpose of preserving and fostering Judaism in America, recommend to the organizations represented at this meeting that a conference composed of national congregational and rabbinical organizations of America be formed for the purpose of enabling them...
...faculty ruling, in effect, sets up an elastic barrier between Pass and Honor students which adapts itself to the basic structure of the lecture system. For the necessary restrictions which hedge about the privilege make the transition back to course requirements easy for the student who does not profit by extended tutorial work. On complaint of his tutor, a delinquent candidate may have to resume the full schedule of four courses at either mid-year or final examination periods...
...Claremont, Calif., hard by Los Angeles, another Oxford rises. Oxford, at least, is the handiest comparison, for Oxford is a group of autonomous colleges, individually staffed, housed and administered, under a university seal that indicates their federation into a community of learning in which only major facilities, basic policies and an enveloping tradition are held in common...