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...faults in this campaign are not particularly glaring. (In fact, its very innocuousness alone precludes any gush of vigorous support.) We drag feet, however, because the two resolutions involve serious though latent trouble, trouble which is not worth risking in view of the paltry blessings their adoption would bring...
...balmy spring afternoon sometime in the early 30's a young woman sat on the grass at Bronx Zoo sketching a female rhinoceros. The rhino had been making "silly squeaks," something which had particularly impressed the artist, when suddenly the broad beast charged to the bars and tried to drag the young woman into the cage...
...once cut across the Antietam to keep a bad landing from becoming a disaster. Without that barrier, planes that missed the arresting gear were almost certain to damage others on the deck. Now, a pilot who overshoots the mark will have a chance to go around again. He can drag low across the landing area without crashing into the wings of parked planes, folded skyward to save space. On the new deck, a nylon net will be raised to stop planes that come in with damaged landing hooks...
What makes this problem additionally rocky is the much larger question of ridding colleges of the necessity to teach basically elementary courses. The ideal, of course, is that all such courses be taught in secondary schools, releasing college students from the drag on their college carrer and allowing the Faculty more discretion in designing the course requirements. (The Andover-Blackmere Report, soon to be unveiled, deals fully with this complication). Like most ideals, this is a long-range affair at best, since the only means of forcing these courses back into the high-schools is for all colleges to impose...
...argument that free entry of goods made by "cheap" foreign labor would drag down the American workingman's standard of living, the Board answered: "Foreign labor is not cheap! Productivity as well as wages determine the value of labor. The employees of Detroit and Michigan industries, as a result of heavy investments in equipment, tools and machinery, and improved techniques of production, are competitive with other labor groups throughout the world." Free trade, said the Board, is inevitable. And it is illogical to send American products abroad with loans, grants and outright gifts to buy the goods...