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...agencies, Harvard might with expedience and point, undertake a similar experiment. The lectures, as at New York University, could be given weekly at a convenient time and place. Members of the faculty might occasionally take the stand, and such men as Harold Laski, George Soule, and Edmund Wilson could doubtless be obtained with slight trouble or cost. Dealing with the political, social, and economic difficulties which beset the world, and seizing upon undergraduate interest in such problems at its present intensity, the course should not suffer from lack of attendance. It would, to a certain extent, clarify the muddled mind...
...those accustomed to polite academic society, this vigorous honesty is somewhat startling, somewhat refreshing. As Mr. Keller doubtless hoped, it blasts away the common sophistry which is the delight of modern professorial dignity and which resides within the debate over "research" and teaching. Typically enough, Sumner, eschewing the word research, maintained that, "Far from being detrimental to teaching, diligent and incessant study, was an indispensable requisite to it. This he took as axiomatic and spent no time talking about it." In form, this is a book of reminiscences; it is a sentimental document, the clear portrait of a great teacher...
...this body he buttonholed Congressmen for two years, trying to pound home his ideas on farm relief. Early on the Roosevelt bandwagon, he now works just as hard to put into effect the Roosevelt domestic allotment as he did for his own equalization fee. and doubtless gets wry satisfaction when delegations of lobbyists wait on him. He is now inside the glass house he used to throw stones at, and apparently enjoys glass-housekeeping...
Jewelers and novelty shops all over the Reich did a brisk business last week selling lapel pins enameled or embossed with foreign flags. In many cases the pins doubtless worked, saved their wearers from instant Nazi assault for failure to salute passing Storm Troop banners. But one day last week in the smoky Ruhr metropolis of Dusseldorf, inoffensive Roland Velz, a U. S. citizen and superintendent of a group of Germany's Woolworth stores, went walking, pinless, with his wife. Cheering Dusseldorfers stood massed along the curbstone six deep as a Storm Battalion marched past, grim-faced with blaring...
...after the gaseous smoke has cleared away from the wreckage of the next Continental war to which this nationalism fostered by the dominant class today is rushing us, there remains enough life to carry through a social revolution, it will doubtless be effected in every nation of Europe, and a federation of communist states established. (That limited prediction is by no means a wild, baseless forecast. Almost any observer of the European scene would second it.) Whether that system could keep the peace among its component parts can never, of course, be adequately settled until it has been tried...