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...argument advanced by the died-in-the-wool elective systematizers to combat attempts to restore a content to liberal education, namely that some people are constitutionally unable to study sciences, seems to be refuted by the experience of St. John's. The students were surprised that we thought some might have been caught on this snag of their all-required curriculum, and blamed "dead" text-books and teaching methods...
...Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall could immediately begin shipping upwards of 60,000 reasonably well-equipped, ready-to-fight regulars. He could put on the firing line five modernized, motorized infantry divisions, two cavalry divisions (one on wheels, one using both wheels and horses), a serviceable force of combat aviation (which could soon be doubled or tripled), along with artillery, engineers, supplementary troops for one Regular Army corps and part of a second...
...understandable viewpoint of students who have nibbled from all and everything and gained little more than a few points of credit. But when a professor of education propounds this view, it is a sad sign of defeatism--a sign that educators recognize their failure without mustering the courage to combat it. Few would disagree with Professor Brewer's contention that Harvard's liberal education is an adulterated concoction; but this is no reason why Harvard should turn resignedly to handicraft and dentistry as something that the boys can put their fingers on. If Harvard fears that, as a liberal arts...
...your portfolio of war cartoons (Jan. 22 issue) you included a very powerful British war cartoon entitled "The Combat." You . . . attributed it to the wrong artist. It was done not by Klingworth, but by the well-known cartoonist L. G. Illingworth...
Similar campaigns will begin simultaneously at universities all over the country, with the aim of collecting a total sum of $10,000. Most of the fund will be held in reserve to combat measures suppressing civil liberties on the campus and tending to weaken the Student Union. The drive will last until...