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...book starts with a chapter on the origin of life. Eels, explains Dr. Levine, are not born from mud, nor caterpillars from leaves; like almost all other animals, they develop from the union of sperm cells and egg cells. Next comes the reproduction of fish and frogs, a barnyard view of chickens and cows. After the cow comes man. Dr. Levine bridges the gap with two pictures: a mother nursing her baby, a calf nuzzling at the udder...
...nature of the educational problem which Mr. Pettee hints at is enlarged on by Harvard's Professor Robert Ulich in a chapter on "Constructive Education" in which he calls for a school system which will "develop in its pupils initiative and ethical character." Dartmouth's Professor Rosenstock-Huessy vaguely believes that "we must provide for the future adult an education that makes him experience 'emerging inspiration,' emerging authority." The more prosaic task of increasing the facilities for vocational guidance and training is treated by Aubrey Williams in his chapter on "The Role of the Schools...
...heels of the final big game, some brilliant performance by an individual assumes an importance outweighing the quality of inspirational leadership. Enthusiasm rather than sober judgment tends to away the vote. The ten months intervening between the election and the start of the next season can readily develop drastic and unforeseeable circumstances. Captains elect have been forced to give up their college careers for varied, personal reasons. Captains elect have flunked out of college. Captains elect have gone on probation and were ineligible to lead their teams. Captains elect have met with sickness or acoldent during the summer. Captains elect...
...matter of the relation of universities to war, such reversals of opinion as noted above will, I believe, continue until the universities develop and use tow such tools. These tow tools, I think, would be the study of metaphysics and the education and discipline of the emotions, both to be required of all students and all the faculty...
...regard to the other tool, we recognize that the sources of energy for our actions are emotions and sentiments; but the universities, though professing to prepare for leadership, seem unwilling to select important attitudes and deliberately train them. We learn how to develop technical skills; why not skill or inner attitude? Yours truly, RICHARD B. CREGG...