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...that these two Student Council reports "caused General Education" would be a gross simplification of the cause and effect pattern. Doubtless there were the same forces operating on these student valuators as later affected the faculty framers of the General Education policy. But the fact remains that the 12 members of the faculty "Committee on Objectives" carefully considered these Council reports and actually "lifted" some parts totally. The student's view was being accepted. And the effects of this acceptance are with us today...
...minor essays which follow "Variations on a Philosopher," Mr. Huxley treats of art, religion, prisons, and food shortages. His demonstration that art and religion bear almost no relation to each other at a given period of history is challenging and witty. "Man and society are, doubtless, wholes; but they are wholes divided, like ships, into watertight compartments." In the essays on the individual painters and works, this tearing at the unified pictures of society presented in history books is also evident...
...Drop the policy of "walkout and boycott" of the United Nations, and show some respect for the will of the majority. "Let the Soviet Union put forward . . . genuine proposals conducive to the work of peace . . . They will then doubtless have a majority with them [and] we will be pleased to be a member of it ourselves...
...Long & Short of It. The more fearless molders of U.S. opinion-the advertising agency, the department store and the beauty salon-paid no attention. Bock beer was duly publicized. Women's skirts were raised to what is known as "midcalf" for the new season-a maneuver which would doubtless enable the fiends of fashion to start lowering them again in the fall. Women who had cut off most of their hair in 1949 because they looked so frightful with it long, were urged by Elizabeth Arden to grow it out immediately because they looked so frightful with it short...
...heinous result of this [proposed] legislation is something which the average layman has doubtless not considered. That is, what effect would the actual commission of the 'mercy-killing' have on the doctor who performed it? . . . Soon the medical profession would lose the healthy bloom associated with the bringing forth and maintaining of life and it would acquire some of the unsocial, morbid air surrounding the hangman's trade...