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...warned of the "makings of a dictatorship." He accused New Dealers of aiming to replace the Constitution with "some other mechanism" or simply with "the vague principles and aspirations of Franklin Roosevelt." "This is a campaign," trumpeted he, "to determine whether the American Government shall continue to be the concern of the American people . . . or whether it shall be surrendered to the sole concern of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...could say of Spain: 'Let them slaughter their officers and murder their priests and intellectuals-it is none of our business.' I would have the mentality of a child if I should take that attitude. We do not live on the moon. What happens in Europe does concern us. I believe that we 'wild nationalists' are, after all. the best Europeans. . . . And now gentlemen, you must have good appetites, come to luncheon...
Less assiduous in his attendance at but no less diligent in his interest in cinema than the 220,000,000 who attend every week is Pope Pius XI. Over two months ago, Pope Pius manifested his concern by an encyclical commending the U. S. Legion of Decency, stressing the advisability of similar organizations throughout the world (TIME, July 13). Last week he was pleased to receive the report of Giuseppe Cassinis, official Papal representative at last fortnight's International Motion Picture Exposition in Venice. The Cassinis report said that of all the films shown at the Exposition, 60% were...
...every academic foundation. If one of the four vital streams I have mentioned either fails or swells to a torrent, thus destroying the proper balance of nourishment, then the true university tradition may perish. The cultivation of learning alone produces not a university but a research institute; the sole concern with the student life produces an academic country club or merely a football team manoenvering under a collegiate banner. On such abnormalities we need not dwell, but I should like to take a few moments to consider the disastrous effects of an over-emphasis of either the liberal arts educational...
...consider, first, the situation, created when the proper balance is upset by disproportionate concern with general education. In this case the stream of learning and research inevitably dries up; indeed, some have contended that it should. Newman defined his idea of a university as "a place of teaching universal knowledge, for the diffusion and extension of knowledge rather than the advancement." In his famous essay be recommended "a division of intellectual labour between learned academies and universities." (In twentieth century terminology we should substitute the words "research institute" for "academy".) He believed that "to discover and to teach...