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...greatest advantage of this rule is that it will enable those men who are admitted to carry on personal research under the direct tutelage of the instructor. With the weeding out of the dilettante element, the faculty will be able to concentrate its efforts and the students will be able to develop their individual inclinations unhampered by the routine that the presence of less able persons necessitates...
Since the great communist scare of 1919. "treat 'em rough" has been the apparent policy of the United States in dealing with the so-called "Red" element of the population. Aside from characteristic protest from such liberal journals as the Nation no one has become very much excited over a situation which places the government in the position of an avowed suppressor of political minorities to whom the constitution guarantees freedom. Anarchist outrages like the Wall Street bombing identified the communist party in the public mind as an outlawed enemy of society to whom no treatment was just save that...
...student concentrating in History, for example, may be examined on History as it applies to Government or Economics. This will introduce an element of mature interpretation of the subject which has not been prevalent before. If this new plan is successful, it is predicted that other subjects may be treated in a similar manner...
...department. It is to Professor Parr that Illinois chemists turn for solace and inspiration in chemical experimentation. More important than his own work in the chemistry of coal, is the part Professor Parr played in encouraging the sort of research which ultimately led Professor B. Smith Hopkins to discover Element No. 61. This, the only element so far revealed by a U. S. chemist, was named Illinium...
...Added to legal censorship is what might be called a form of self-censorship. A movie cannot antagonize any element of the population. Even in the more romantic movies this self-censorship is found necessary. The problem of whom to cast for the villain is one of the most difficult. He cannot be either Chinese, Mexican, coloured, Jewish, or Irish if his character is objectionable...