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...week the Welfare Council published Publisher Hearst's telegram of reply: MY OPINION IS THAT IF FEEDING THE HUNGRY BY BREADLINES NOT NEEDED THERE WOULD BE NO BREADLINES. . . . AMERICAN'S REASON FOR DISTRIBUTING CHARITY IN PUBLIC PLACES IS TO BRING HOME TO PEOPLE THE GRAVE CONDITIONS WHICH EXIST AND THE NEED FOR CHARITABLE THOUGHT AND ACTION...
...50th as a Columbia alumnus, his 30th as president). Last week Columbia was once more busy with what Dr. Butler calls "the newest type of university organization." Announced as opening next autumn was a New College, subsidiary of Teachers College. New College, which will have its own faculty but exist in Teachers College buildings, will be headed by Dr. Thomas Alexander who has been working on the project since 1920. Because Teachers College is for Ph.D. and M.A.-seekers. New College will be strictly undergraduate, limited at its opening to 90 students (male & female) in each of the two entering...
...Accordingly, let U. S. colleges and universities continue as they are; they do good work in training the masses of ineducable persons. Private enterprise may some day found a series of educational institutions and take up once more the Great Tradition. Until then, says Dr. Nock, "there does not exist a university or an undergraduate college, in the traditional and proper sense, anywhere in the country. ... No such thing [as an education] is possible in any American institution with which I am acquainted." Author- Professor Nock, born 59 years ago in Scranton, Pa., is a tall, rosy-cheeked pundit...
That conditions of this sort should exist where students, supposedly having a degree of intelligence somewhat above the average level, will have the gall to attempt to obtain a subsidy from an institution of higher learning for carrying on their work, is deplorable, indeed. In no instance do graduate students deserve to be subsidized save as a reward for merit in recognition of outstanding achievement...
...University had given credits for courses offered in the School, it might have been more popular and successful. But as conditions exist, it seems best that the Cambridge School of the Drama should discontinue its work for the present. Then, perhaps, the University would establish its own department or graduate school, a more logical solution for the problem...