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...contrary, he dates the beginning of our current intellectual anarchy a century back and he predicts the achievement of "an educational basis for a unified, coherent culture suited to a democratic country in a scientific age" a century ahead. Today, the educational program which Mr. Lewis seeks does not exist...
What does, according to the President, exist and remain constant, is the essence of the university tradition, having four ultimate sources of strength: "first, the cultivation of learning for its own sake; secondly, the general educational stream of the liberal arts; thirdly, the educational stream that makes possible the professions; and, lastly, the never-failing river of student life carrying all the power that comes from the gregarious impulses of human beings...
...hundred thousand Slavs in East Prussia, proves himself to be anything but a champion of submerged peoples. Likewise, in supporting the claims of Poland and Hungary who are demanding their share of territory, Hitler is overlooking the fact that these two countries are dominating far greater minorities themselves than exist in Czechoslovakia...
...they destroy deed records in the Land Registry Office. Not one British policeman risks murder by patrolling Jerusalem streets after midnight. Knickerbocker conclusions: "Nowhere in the British Empire, save perhaps among the savage tribes of the Northwest Frontier [India], do such conditions of disorder and contempt for British authority exist as today in Palestine...
...There exist few doubters to whom it is necessary to demonstrate anew the value of a well-organized program of intramural athletics. To the aspiring athlete of sub-varsity talents, it gives the opportunity to take part in those sports which he enjoys playing. To the collegiate rank and file, it offers stimulus to widespread athletic participation, to pleasurable exercise directed toward the development of sound bodies for sane minds. To rapidly spreading spectator sports and grandstand gymnastics, hailed by our fashionable pessimists as the sign of twilight in a decadent generation, it deals an effective body blow...