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When Gerhart Eisler spoke in the New Lecture Hall last April, there was a heckling element in the crowd which gave an annoying demonstration of contempt for the First Amendment. And when Gerhart Eisler spoke in Emerson D on Monday night, there was also a demonstration--a quiet and amiable demonstration of willingness to hear Marxist theories from a German Communist. There could be little doubt that the vast majority of Eisler's listeners disagreed emphatically with practically everything he said. Yet there were no outbursts of protest, no low-level practical jokes, no heckling...
...offerings. With them go "The Invaders"--Raymond Massey, Lawrence Olivier, and Leslie Howard dealing with a German submarine invasion--and "Welcome Stranger," termed "a warm and human tale" by the management, which probably found the money brought in by Crosby, Caulfield, and Barry Fitzgerald the most warm and human element in the whole thing...
Carman wasn't the only varsity player who stood out in that first Darmouth game. Phill Clark clinched the first-string goalie job and second line center Myles Huntiagton got three goals to lead the scoring. But more than individual performances, team play--the most important element in a hockey team's success--has improved immensely ever since the Crimson's visit to Hanover...
...diluted love potion is not the only hoary element, though. For some reason, the third act starts off with an argument between a Catholic priest and the lover, who has been reading a communist journal. The padre's academic argument (there are only six pleasures of the flesh, but what fun you can have with the immortal soul) scarcely resolves the religious-materialist conflict...
Again, the critics may say that students can get all the benefits of GE under the present arrangement; but at least an element of compulsion is necessary to protect department teachers from having to compete with the broader aims of he Committee. To organize the system too far might produce, as is the case in other school, "a lesser breed without the law," a general education faculty looked on disdainfully by their colleagues of the departments. Today's proposal guarantees the continuance of high-level instruction obtained by staffing GE from regular Faculty rolls...