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...theories that will give him at least a tolerance of liberalism. He often becomes a liberal himself, and sometimes turns into an out-and-out revolutionary. Since the days of President Eliot, Harvard has lost its New England dyed-in-the-wool conservatism and has assumed the real function of a University--to put before its students samples of all ideas and all theories...
...imitation. At Herr Thyssen's enormous detective-watched residence Leader Hitler and Oberst Goring ate dinner after their flights to Berlin. They conferred the same night with Germany's modern Machiavelli, soft-spoken General-leutnant Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense in the von Papen Cabinet which continued to function ad interim. Germans soon noticed the surprising fact that several newsorgans of Biggest Business, such as Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitiing and Rheinisch-Westfalische, had abruptly switched from hostility to support of Adolf Hitler. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitiing urged President von Hindenburg "in the interest of that tranquillity required for business revival...
...constantly applicable, one cannot refrain from taking issue with the radical principles which Miss Center announces as those of her organization, the National Council of Teachers of English. Miss Center would let down the grammatical bars, allowing many colloquialisms which are considered bad usage; she would make it the function of English teachers to "integrate and direct the forces and trends in contemporary American life" by teaching pupils how to listen to radios, how to read newspapers and magazines, how to see movies, how to converse...
...undergraduate publication, the "Harvard Critic," which was announced yesterday, may well come to fill a blank in the College's literary roster. The "Critic" will serve mainly as a month piece for opinions concerning Harvard policy and educational trends, as well as national affairs, a function which no existing local publication taken as the sole basis of its endeavors. The periodical will contain articles by men beyond the narrow pale of Harvard life, a field until recently untrod by undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun...
...early Church fathers wisely interpreted the nature and function of charity. They believed that charity to the poor should be done in justice rather than in mercy. Property, in their eyes, was of artificial and evil origin but had become necessary to human society. God, therefore, having originally destined to every man a share in the common wealth sufficient for his needs it became the duty of the church to give to those who had less than their share...