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...current "Century", writing under the title, "An Unfortunate Necessity", Gerald W. Johnson discards censorship and discovers a new method of attack. The fault of the newspapers is, he says, not in telling unpleasant news but in telling it unpleasantly. If the journalists were clever enough, his intimation is, they could tell questionable stories in a humorous vein which would alleviate the usual sultry effect or with scientific discernment which would allay popular and fallacious deductions. Yet he never once asks himself or his readers why newspaper men should want to draw the sting from crude news to protect a public...
...accepted for concentration so that the department is adapted to men of greatly differing tastes. In this connection it is pertinent to scotch the myth that is every man's inheritance from secondary school that American history is a sterile and desolate waste. The usual preparatory school graduate, no fault of his, has seen American history through glasses so darkly distorting that it is fair to say he has not seen...
Friendliness in these huge institutions is confined to very small units, indeed, through no fault of the students, perhaps, since the structure of the university life affords no daily meeting ground for the interchange of amenities. The discouragement of intimate association, such as all colleges used to foster among all students, is one of the serious short-comings of the prodigious educational plants. It seems that some artifice must be adopted to make their atmosphere less gelid, and the most natural recourse is to attempt, by some such arrangement as the Harvard committee favors, to bring back to the university...
...clubs that the two are complementary and not antagonistic. As Oom Paul Kruzer used to say, one hand washes the other. In a concentrated community of 250 to 300 sophomores, juniors, and seniors each member should copie into intimate contacts with all: if he fails to do so, the fault is presumably his own. At Oxford there are casual but inevitably daily meetings over tea in the common--room and at dinner in Hallson all sorts of college athletic teams, college literary, debating and "wine" clubs. In each college is a resident "Head" and a corps of tutors whose function...
...stair creaked. . . . The sound rang through the empty house like a shout. On the dim stairway a shoe was hastily withdrawn from the articulate board; a girl crouched against the balusters listening. The noise had been her own fault, but she was too bundled up to move altogether without clumsiness; she had on two dresses, one under the other; there was a package under her arm. No echo answered her mistep. She could smell the chlorides from the bathroom under the staircase; she could hear far away, the day's first milk-train chuff and clank on its siding...