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...that a newspaper should be like a mirror to the public consciousness in which it flourished. This is today the discouraging possibility. Even the most cynical of us must hope that such a list as this reflects not the whole of public opinion or interest, and that the fault for the distortion of values that so characterizes journalism today must be laid where Mr. Johnson puts it, squarely on the shoulders of the newspapermen themselves...
...attract, or the advertising value of the stamp that its name can put on the graduate, is fatal to real scholarship. It misses the mark of culture altogether--so that one may say that the more scholars the country has the less scholarship it has to show. The essential fault of our national attitude toward education is our disposition to regard it as a commodity like any other, to be regulated by the law of supply and demand. In this materialistic view lies the secret of the fact hat with infinitely less expenditure, fewer facilities and few or seekers, real...
PIRANDELLO would say that my inability to enjoy shoot is my own fault. Caught up in the treadmill of modern life, I have no time to read his novel leisurely as it should be read...
...radio has turned from accounts of the pitcher wiping off the ball and the halfback knocking the dirt out of his cheeks long enough to allow a work from the other side. Station WTIC has opened its mouthpiece to Professor Odell Shepard who has much fault to find with the American idea of sport and with college sport in particular. Professor Shepard thinks the whole trouble lies in our lack of a spirit of play. Business men for instance he claims play golf merely to keep fit for more business. What is important to them is not the actual play...
...method might be profitably used in preserving the rationality of law in Nebraska and Minnesota and elsewhere. But it is unfortunate that satire is needed to preserve sanity in legislation. At times when crime is unusually persistent, it will not help matters to make even exceptional laws ridiculous. The fault however, does not lie with Mr. Finley of Kansas but with those who have given the cause for so justified an attack. We hope his lesson will be taken to heart by law-makers who fail to realize that theirs is a serious job. Law enforcement is difficult enough...