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...those who feel that this is presuming upon the intelligence of the men at Harvard let it be said that as knowledge and education continue to advance so must the tenets of those educational institutions which foster learning. The primary function of a college is to turn out men educated in the best fashion that it can. There are some who feel that the best methods are those which put out many men with a standard of education which of necessity must be somewhat lower than that of the institution which graduates fewer students. Then there are those who feel...
...decline in this country. . . . Numbers of my friends felt the same way. We decided to do something about it." By way of doing something about it, Mrs, Hugh Bullock, daughter-in-law of Investment Banker Calvin Bullock, announced in Manhattan the birth of the Academy of American Poets. Prime function of the Academy, as soon as Founder Bullock & friends can raise a fat endowment, will be to patronize eight or ten lucky U. S. poets by annual stipends of $5,000 apiece. No poet herself but a rich and comely young socialite. Mrs. Bullock had enlisted as sponsors Mrs. Calvin...
...break the impasse caused by the worthlessness of this question, Oxford has proposed the resolution: "that the first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay." Is this bit of dilettantism the best topic two liberal universities can find to discuss before an international audience? Are Harvard and Oxford so secluded from the world, so steeped in the academic cloister, that they can find no more fundamental problem to argue? Such a triviality may serve for a literary tea, but so important an event as the Harvard-Oxford debate merits a more vital subject. Harvard and Oxford hold...
...Oxford cable reads as follows: "Impossible Oxford concede. Oxford and BBC propose "The first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay. Oxford wishes negative." The NBC added "We are holding up any action on your message of the thirteenth until we get your reaction to this suggestion from Oxford...
...current struggle between the officers of justice and the organized forces of crime, the local police departments, ham-strung by the venality of city bosses and the inferior talents of their men, are unable to function with the essential efficiency and coordination. Offering a meagre salary and little hope of advancement without political influence, the police forces are compelled to recruit from the lower strata of society...