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...Yale's undergraduates registered for the summer session (a bigger proportion than at other Ivy-League colleges), a deputy of President Charles Seymour announced to them: "We are following the military concept that students are only loaned to universities in order to prepare them better for duty with the armed forces and industry." Faculty war counselors promptly went into a huddle with each student, signed him to a specific course of war training. Some 75% of the students elected enlistment in the Army, Navy or Marine Reserves. The rest chose to prepare for war jobs in industry...
...Scripps-Howard) was the "most significant, fair and reliable" columnist. Today a majority of his fellows would still probably give Clapper the same award. The quality which wins him such tribute from his colleagues is his plainness, as man and writer, in articulating a plain man's concept of democratic government...
President Conant investigated the frontier condition of American society during the nineteenth century to clarify the concept of human liberty specific to this nation and passed on by tradition. "Those of our frontier were not concerned with the past. They were little bothered by tradition or custom; what stability and order they possessed came from the needs of the present, not from an inherited pattern...
Above all, don't get the idea that Freshmen are to be seen and not heard. That concept has never taken very deep root around the Square, and would be especially foolish now. None of the men around you, Faculty and undergraduates alike, has ever seen a term quite like this before, and most of them are just as much...
...basic courses, Mumford sees "a chance for me to put into practice the concept of education I have had for many years, which is that the humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the 20th Century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that 20th-century multiplicity may become 20th-century unity." One technique will be to acquaint" students with "the great masters of reality," not politicians, businessmen and economists, but Sophocles, Shakespeare, Isaiah, Dostoevski, St. Paul...