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...unfortunate gastronomical situation is not peculiar to Harvard alone if one agrees with Thurston Macauley, writing in the current Forum. In an article mournfully titled "The Decline of Eating in America," Mr. Macauley says "Eating on this side of the Atlantic has become one of the lost arts." The problem Harvard faces also seems to be a national one--the result of America's special ogre, standardization. Cursing cafeterias and similar quick lunch places whose proud boast is a meal a minute, the epicure goes on to comment regretfully on the days when dinners were both edifying and edible. Like...
...Macgowan, who addressed the Ford Hall Forum last night, has been dramatic critic for three metropolitan newspapers, has been Director of the Provincetown Playhouse and the Green-which Village Theatre, and is at present Director of the Actors' Theatre in New York...
...executive committee shoulder to shoulder, a Y. W. C. A. leader and a Milwaukee banker-philanthropist, a university president and a Chautauqua manager, a Standard Oil executive and a Trades Union League director, the secretary of the American Library Association and the Chairman of the Ford Ball Forum, inadvertently demonstrates the potential usefulness of organized educational cooperation in most striking fashion...
Edward C. Aswell '26 has written certain of his views on education for the November issue of the "Forum". They are interesting, intelligent, and, to all who are vitally concerned with American education, vastly suggestive. Yet like most of the views of both young and old advocates of educational reform, they smack too much of the general and too much of the arbitrary...
...asked my views on Immortality. I replied: 'I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul . . . Soul? Soul? What do you mean by soul? . . . The Brain immortal? No, the brain is a piece of meat-mechanism . . . wonderful meat-mechanism,' But the November issue of The Forum will contain another interview with me in which, now aged 79, I say that even evidence that science now possesses tends to favor belief in Immortality; that there is nothing necessarily shocking to practical intelligence about Immortality. By Immortality I mean what the spiritualists mean, persistence of the undefined 'Soul...