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...Doubtless, even with the desired pledges, the plan would not thereby become an assured success. Men might fail to redeem promises lightly made. On this account, the pledges should be signed with something like due deliberation. Moreover, the running of the hall without detrimental loss is still only a scheme on paper. The reasonable price at which it is proposed to offer viands is good fodder for skeptics who cannot be categorically contradicted. Yet, the University has studied this aspect of the problem as well as the others and is to a certain extent, plighting its faith with the student...
...being thoroughly drained of all apparent significance. Indeed, it is not altogether an unhappy outlook to suppose that lawyers and politicians will take the affair some-what to heart and that, consequently, some slight attempt will be made to mend both the ways of court procedure and political preferment. Doubtless, too, it will occur to some analyst that the case of Judge Thayer, laboring for years under the siress of one single controversy, and likewise the case of Madeiros, seeking to make a confession which would baffle the lawyers, are good prey for psychological discussion...
...Faunce's suggestions are thoughtful and pertinent, and they doubtless would provide a satisfactory test of the candidate's capacity to profit by a college education if they were conscientiously answered. But the difficulty would seem to be that most prospective collegians are likely to consider that the matter of their personal fitness is not worth much thought, inasmuch as the question is neither pressing nor easy to solve. College is usually regarded as a matter of course,--to be taken or discarded on its objective merits. It is a rare thing when unsuitability and failure are judged in advance...
Sirs: TIME, May 9 gives, doubtless unintentionally, quite a wrong impression of a recent statement of mine before the American Philosophical Society. Perhaps you would wish to correct it. What I really said was this: "In the face of great apparent prosperity, higher education in this country ... is gravely menaced by the difficulty?approaching impossibility?of recruiting an adequate amount of first rate intellectual ability to carry forward this great enterprise." I am sure you will agree that you attribute a very different statement to me. JAMES R. ANGELL...
...have observed, there have been no efforts to interpret the devastating floods in the Mississippi valley as punishment inflicted by an outraged deity upon the sinful dwellers in the lowlands. If the calamity had been a tornado, a fire, an earthquake or a tidal wave, doubtless there would have been the usual outburst of piously blasphemous explanations that the divine patience was exhausted and that the sufferers were getting what was coming to them for their intolerable iniquities. It was so with Galveston, San Francisco and Florida. It is doubtful whether there has been any notable improvement in theological thinking...